True or False: Food material passed through the pancreas just before reaching the small intestine.
What is false?
What are the three main steps that make up the digestive process?
Digestion, Absorption, Excretion
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
The ____________________produce saliva used to moisten your mouth.
What are the salivary glands?
After leaving the esophagus, food travels here.
What is the stomach? deja vu
This is the J shaped pouch that churns and squeezes food.
What is stomach? steal points
These are the smooth muscle contractions that occur in the esophagus and small intestine to move the food along.
What is peristalsis?
Two layers of this tissue make up the stomach, they move in opposite directions causing the food to be mixed and churned up.
What are the muscle layers?
This is what happens to food while in the stomach.
What is it gets churned/ mixed/squeezed?
Unused food leaves the body and is called__________.
What is waste?
This term describes digestion that physically breaks down the food into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical digestion? steal points
These are the finger like projections that extend into the small intestine an absorb nutrients from the digested food.
What are the villi? deja vu
The body must have a variety these obtained from digested food and broken down into their molecular forms in order to live.
What are nutrients?
This is where a lot of chemical digestion occurs, enzymes and bile are secreted in this location.
What is the duodenum?
finish this sequence: teeth take bite of food , saliva is added and you chew, you swallow and food goes down esophagus, into the ___________, then your______________, finally into your _________________
What is the stomach, small intestine, large intestine? DJ
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! These are two organs that pour juices into the small intestine.
What are pancreas and gallbladder?
true or false-- Digestion starts in your mouth
What is true? DJ
This form of digestion involves substances such as enzymes and acids being introduced into the digestive process.
What is chemical digestion?
This organ makes bile and processes things such as chemicals, toxins, and medicines.
What is the liver?
The stomach lining is covered in this, it prevents the stomach from digesting itself with acids.
What is mucous membrane?