Digestive Organs
This is where digestion begins with chewing and saliva.
What is the mouth?
Chewing food is this type of digestion.
What is mechanical digestion?
This enzyme in saliva breaks down starch.
What is amylase?
Tiny finger-like projections that increase surface area in the small intestine.
What are villi?
This disorder causes heartburn when stomach acid moves upward.
What is acid reflux?
This tube connects the mouth to the stomach.
What is the esophagus?
Enzymes breaking down food is this type of digestion.
What is chemical digestion?
This acid in the stomach helps break down proteins.
What is hydrochloric acid (HCl)?
These nutrients are broken down into amino acids.
What are proteins?
This is inflammation of the appendix.
What is appendicitis?
his muscular organ churns food and mixes it with gastric juices.
What is the stomach?
The stomach uses churning, which is this type of digestion.
What is mechanical digestion?
This organ produces bile.
What is the liver?
These nutrients are broken down into simple sugars like glucose.
What are carbohydrates?
This happens when someone cannot properly digest lactose.
What is lactose intolerance?
Most digestion and absorption take place here.
What is the small intestine?
Saliva contains enzymes that begin digesting this nutrient.
What are carbohydrates (starches)?
Bile is stored in this organ.
What is the gallbladder?
These nutrients are broken down into fatty acids and glycerol.
What are fats (lipids)?
The wave movement that keeps food moving even if you are upside down is called this.
What is peristalsis?
This organ absorbs water and forms feces.
What is the large intestine?
Peristalsis is best described as this.
What are wave-like muscle contractions that move food?
This gland produces pancreatic juice and enzymes for digestion.
What is the pancreas?
Most nutrient absorption happens in this specific part of the digestive system.
What is the small intestine?
The partially digested food leaving the stomach is called this.
What is chyme?