Where the digestive journey begins. Food is chopped and torn into many smaller pieces for easier digestion by teeth, the tongue, and the salivary glands.
What is the mouth?
100
A triangular organ that produces bile and secretes into the small intestines.
What is the liver?
100
The first function, which is the intake of food. The mouth is responsible for this function to take place.
What is ingestion?
100
Consists of 4 different organs that filter and produce urine.
What is kidneys, ureters, urinary bladder, and urethra?
100
This type of blood cell takes up 45% of the blood volume?
What are red blood cells?
200
A funnel- shaped tube connected to the mouth that passes food through to the esophagus also has a flap of tissue known as the epiglottis that controls the route of air and food.
What is the pharynx?
200
A small, pear-shaped organ that is used to store and reuse bile from the small intestine.
What is the gallbladder?
200
The fluids involved in this function include saliva, mucus, hydrochloric acid, enzymes, and bile. About 7 liters of these fluids leave the body in a day.
What is secretion?
200
Pair of bean-shaped organs that filter metabolic wastes, excess ions and chemicals from the blood to form urine.
What are kidneys?
200
Transport oxygen into the blood through red pigment hemoglobin.
What are erythrocytes?
300
A muscular tube connecting the pharynx to the stomach that swallows masses of chewed food.
What is the esophagus?
300
A large gland that is about 6 inches long, whose function is to secrete digestive enzymes into the small intestines.
What is the pancreas?
300
There are 3 main processes in this function which include; swallowing, peristalsis and segmentation.
What is mixing and movement of food?
300
A pair of tubes that can carry urine from the kidneys to the urinary bladder. They are 10-12 inches long that have valves that don't allow urine to go back to the kidneys.
What is ureters?
300
The liquid portion of blood that makes up 55% of the blood's volume.
What is plasma?
400
A muscular sac that is located on the left side of the abdominal cavity. Acts like a storage place for food to stay for proper digestion. Contains acids for digestion.
What is the stomach?
400
A long, thick tube that is about 2 1/2 inches in diameter and about 5 feet long. That absorbs water and has bacteria that help break down wastes and extract some nutrients.
What are the large intestines?
400
The process of turning large pieces of food into chemicals. There are two different processes of this function; mechanically and chemical. The mechanical or physical process includes the mouth and the chewing of the food. While the chemical happens in the intestines with the help of acids and enzymes.
What is digestion?
400
A sac-like organ that is used for the storage of urine. Can hold anywhere from 600-800 milliliters of urine.
What is the urinary bladder?
400
32 small, hard organs that break down food.
What are teeth?
500
A long, thin tube that is 1 inch in diameter and about 10 feet long. It is coiled like a hose and the insides is full of ridges, that absorb nutrients.
What are the small intestines?
500
6 major functions of the digestive system.
What is ingestion, secretion, mixing and movement, digestion, absorption, and excretion?
500
This function usually takes place in the small intestines and goes directly to the bloodstream. Large intestines are also involved in this function they absorb water and vitamins B and K. This then leads to the final function which is when the waste left over after processing takes place.
(note: has two separate answers.)
What is absorption and excretion?
500
A tube that urine passes through and then passes from the bladder to the exterior of the body.
What is the urethra?
500
A muscle cover with a thin, bumpy, skin-like layer.