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Vocabulary
The Beginning & The Mouth
Into and Out of the Stomach, Accessory Organs, and the Digestive Tract
The Renal System
100

The process that changes the chemicals in the food that you eat, breaking them down into simpler chemicals that the body can use

What is chemical digestion

100

Which teeth are responsible for cutting food like scissors?

What are the incisors?

100

Gastric __________ allow the stomach to expand as it fills with food.

What is gastric "rugae"?

100

(Vocabulary) The amount of a substance in a defined volume is _____________.

What is concentration?

200

The system of digestive organs through which food passes

What is the digestive tract?

200

What type of teeth are wisdom teeth?

What are molars?

200

Name at least 2 organs where chemical digestion that benefits your body occurs?

What are the mouth, the stomach, or the small intestine?

200

True or False:  For any chemical that the body uses, the higher its concentration, the better.

What is false?

300

Digestive organs that are not part of the digestive tract

What are accessory digestive organs?

300
True or False:  The only thing saliva does is moisten the food to make the bolus?

What is false?

300

Which of the following is not part of the digestive tract:   the stomach, the esophagus, the pancreas, the large intestine

What is the pancreas? 

300

The kidneys remove chemicals from the blood plasma.  If the concentration of the chemical is not too high, they put it in the ___________.  If the concentration is too high, they put it in the ____________.

What are the "blood" and the "urine"?

400

The coordinated motion of smooth muscles that push the contents of an organ forward

What is peristalsis?

400

When you are drinking something and laugh, the liquid sometimes comes up through your nose.  What structure isn't doing its job when that happens?

What is the soft palate or the uvula?

400

What macronutrient does bile help you digest? 

What is fat?

400

The blood-cleaning system found in the kidneys. The kidney has more than a million of them.

What is a nephron?

500

To disperse fluid that normally doesn't dissolve so that it spreads throughout a mixture

What is emulsify?

500

True or False:  Sphincters are rings of muscle that open and close organs like the esophagus.

What is true?

500

What must happen to the acid in the food once it leaves the stomach?

What is "It must be neutralized"?

500
When the kidneys start to clean blood, they filter out the cells and the proteins.  What happens to those cells and proteins?

What is they are put back into the blood?