These are the smooth muscle contractions that occur in the esophagus and small intestine to move the food along.
What is peristalsis?
This organ produces a specific digestive juice helps break fat. What is the organ and what chemical does it produce?
What is the liver and bile?
The two sphincters that control movement of materials into and out of the stomach.
What are the cardiac (esophageal) sphincter and pyloric sphincter?
True or False: Food material passes through the pancreas just before reaching the small intestine.
What is false?
What are the four main steps that make up the digestive process?
Ingestion, 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?
This is what happens to food mechanicaly and chemicaly while in the stomach.
What is it gets churned/ mixed/squeezed and digested with pepsin?
Unused food leaves the body and is called__________.
What is waste or fecal matter?
This term describes digestion that physically breaks down the food into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical digestion?
These are the finger like projections that extend into the small intestine an absorb nutrients from the digested food.
What are the villi?
The body must have a variety of 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?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! These are two organs that pour juices into the small intestine.
What chemicals do the pancreas and gallbladder contribute to digestion?
This form of digestion involves substances such as enzymes and acids being introduced into the digestive process.
What is chemical digestion?
This organ is located just underneath the liver, it stores bile.
What is the gall bladder?
The stomach lining is covered in this, it prevents the stomach from digesting itself with acids.
What is mucous membrane?