Digestive 1
Where does the first step of the digestive system take place?
Mouth
What is the function of the esophagus?
Transports food from the mouth to the stomach
What part of your mouth helps with mechanical digestion?
Teeth
What is the next pathway food travels after leaving the small intestine? Explain the function of this next organ.
The large intestine absorbs water and minerals from the remaining material and prepares waste to be eliminated from the body.
What is Peristalsis ?
When muscle contractions move food through the digestive tract
Name the MAIN digestive system organs in the correct order (Hint: 5 organs)
Mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine
What is mechanical digestion?
Breaking down of materials by breaking, tearing, crushing and mashing
If you were to lay them rolled out, which intestine is longer ?
Small
Explain the difference between chemical and physical digestion
Physical digestion breaks food into smaller pieces without changing what it’s made of. Chemical digestion uses enzymes and acids to break food into new, smaller molecules the body can absorb
What does the mouth secret in order to move food
What is the function of the small intestines?
Absorbs all the nutrients and sends it through to the rest of the body.
What is chemical digestion?
The breaking down of food into smaller pieces by chemicals like saliva or enzymes
Apart from the mouth, where else does mechanical digestion occur?
Stomach
What organ produces digestive enzymes/hormones to digest fats, carbohydrates, and proteins?
Pancreas
What is the movement of nutrients, water, electrolytes from the small intestine into the cell then into the blood.
Absorption
What is the main function of the large intestines?
Absorbs water and compacts the waste
Name 2 functions of the digestive system
Breakdown food into nutrients, and sends waste out of your body
What prevents food from entering the windpipe
Epiglottis
What organ stores bile and makes it thicker before realsing it into the upper small intestine?
Gallbladder
What are the accessory organs of the digestive system?
Pancreas, gallbladder, and liver
What is the function of the gallbladder
Stores bile
How does the small intestines send nutrients to the rest of the body?
Through the bloodstream
What is the squeezing of the food in the esophagus called?
Peristalsis
What organ filters out toxins and waste.
Liver
What part of the GI tract secrets mucus which allow food to pushed into the stomach by contractions called peristalsis.
Espohagus