Organ Function
The organ that is the beginning of the digestive system.
What is the mouth?
The digestion that happens when food is squeezed down the esophagus.
What is Physical Digestion?
The small organs in your mouth that produce saliva for chemical digestion.
What are salivary glands?
The length of the small intestine in an adult.
What is 7 meters? What is 21 feet?
The amount of soda cans that would be filled up with the amount of saliva we make in a day.
What is 2 cans?
The organ that absorbs the nutrients from the food we eat.
What is the small intestine?
'saliva breaking down starch' (mechanical or chemical)
What is chemical digestion?
The slush made of food that is created in our stomachs after being broken down.
What is Chyme?
The amount of time it takes to grow a new stomach lining.
What is 3 days?
The part of your body could be burned by the acid in your stomach
What is your skin?
The organ that churns the food that we eat and acts as storage.
What is the stomach?
The type of digestion that happens in the large intestine.
What is none; It only absorbs water?
The muscular movement that happens in the esophagus when food moves from the mouth to the stomach.
What is Peristalsis?
The large intestine is also known as...
The amount of types of species of bacteria in the digestive system.
What is over 500?
The organ that absorbs the water from our food before the waste exits our body.
What is the large intestine?
The organs have BOTH mechanical and chemical digestion.
What are the stomach and the mouth?
When your food is broken down manually into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical digestion?
The acid in your stomach.
What is Hydrochloric Acid?
The amount of pounds of food your stomach can stretch and grow to fit at one time.
What is 4 pounds?
The muscular tube that pushes food from our mouth into our stomach.
What is the esophagus?
What happens if your body were able to do ONLY chemical digestion.
What is choking?
When your food is dissolved or broken down by acid or enzymes.
What is Chemical Digestion?
The valve that opens to let chyme from the stomach to the small intestine.
What is the Pyloric Valve?
The longest attack of hiccups lasted this many years.
What is 68 years?