Organs
Definitions
Pot Luck
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Anything Goes
100
This is where fats are broken down
What is the small intestines?
100
This is the type of digestion that occurs in the mouth and stomach.
What is mechanical digestion?
100
This is absorbed by the large intestine.
What is water/liquids?
100
This is the organ that stores bile.
What is the gallbladder?
100
This enzyme chemically digests proteins in the stomach.
What is pepsin?
200
This is the type of digestion that occurs in the stomach
What is mechanical?
200
This is the type of digestion that occurs mainly in the small intestine.
What is chemical digestion?
200
This substance produced in the liver breaks down fats in the small intestine.
What is bile?
200
This is the organ that produces bile.
What is the liver?
200
Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum, anus.
What is the path that food takes through the digestive system?
300
This organ blocks off the windpipe so food cannot get into it
What is the epiglottis?
300
The muscular opening at the end of the rectum.
What is the anus?
300
The esophagus is lined with this "thick, slippery substance" produced by the body.
What is mucus?
300
Bile passes from this organ into the small intestine.
What is the gallbladder?
300
After leaving the esophagus, food travels here.
What is the stomach?
400
True or False: food material passed through the pancreas just before reaching the stomach.
What is false
400
Waste material is compressed into solid form here.
What is the rectum?
400
Located in the large intestine, these produce certain vitamins.
What is bacteria?
400
This organ makes up 2/3 of the digestive system.
What is the small intestine?
400
The process in which the body absorbs nutrients through the wall of the digestive system.
What is digestion?
500
These are the two types of digestion that occur in the body.
What are mechanical and chemical digestion?
500
This type of muscle is responsible for performing peristalsis.
What is smooth muscle?
500
The surface area of this organ is about the size of a tennis court.
What is the small intestine?
500
These are tiny finger-shaped structures that cover the inner part of the small intestine.
What are villi?
500
The involuntary contraction of muscle in the esophagus that helps move food toward the stomach.
What is peristalsis?
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