Digestive system
Digestive System
Digestive System
Digestive System
Digestive System
100
the first step of the digestive system take place here
in the mouth?
100
This is the function of the esophagus>
What is to transport food from the mouth to the stomach?
100
This part of your mouth helps with mechanical (crushing, ripping apart) digestion.
What are your teeth?
100
The name given to all parts of the digestive system that food actually travels through.
What is the alimentary canal?
100
Name the four main parts of this organ plus the final valve:
What are the cardiac, fundic, body, and pyloric regions and the pyloric sphincter.
200
Name the MAIN digestive system organs in the correct order.
What is mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine?
200
This is the function of the mouth.
What is to increase the surface area of the food and start breaking down carbs chemically?
200
The longest section of the digestive system.
What is the small intestine?
200
Acid in the stomach does this.
Activates pepsinogen into pepsin to break down protein and kills bacteria.
200
why do we eat
to get energy and
300
This are the two FUNCTIONS of the small intestine.
What is to finish breaking down all food and absorb all the nutrients into the blood stream.
300
Chemical Digestion in the mouth is performed by this enzyme.
What is salivary amylase?
300
This organ removes toxins from your blood.
What is your liver?
300
This organ STORES bile for digestion.
What is the gallbladder?
300
This organ MAKES bile for digestion.
What is the liver?
400
This is the main function of the large intestine.
What is to absorb water and compact the waste.
400
Name 2 functions of the digestive system.
What is to breakdown food and absorb nutrients?
400
Ring-like muscles that open and close in several places of your digestive system are called this.
What are sphincters?
400
This is what gives feces its color.
What are bile pigments altered by bacteria?
400
Name 3 secretions of the pancreas.
What are trypsinogen, chymotrypsin, carboxypeptidase, pancreatic amylase, pancreatic lipase, nucleases, bicarbonate ions?
500
Mechanical and chemical digestion take place in these 2 organs.
What is the stomach and the mouth?
500
Finger-like structures in the small intestine are called this.
What are villi?
500
The stomach produces these two main gastric secretions.
What are Pepsinogen and HCl?
500
Bile helps your body absorb this by emulsifying it.
What is fat?
500
This accessory organ produces hormones that control the amount of sugar in the blood.
What is the pancreas?