Digestion
System
System
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!! These are two organs that pour juices into the small intestine.
What are pancreas and gallbladder?
True or False: Digestion starts in your mouth
What is true?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY:
Fish is a healthy source of these two food groups.
What is a healthy source of Protein and Fat?
This organ makes bile and processes things such as chemicals, toxins, and medicines.
What is the liver?
The place where water is removed from the waste.
What is large intestine?
After leaving the oesophagus, food travels here.
What is the stomach?
The stages of digestion where food is taken in.
What is ingestion?
This substance is essential for life; regulating the body's temperature and transports food and waste.
What is water?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!!
The ____________________ produces a liquid used to moisten your mouth.
What are the salivary glands?
True or False: Food material passed through the pancreas just before reaching the small intestine.
What is false?
The means by which unprocessed food leaves the body.
What is egestion?
The deficiency of Vitamin C; causing bleeding gums and loosened teeth.
What is Scurvy?
The stomach lining is covered in this, it prevents the stomach from digesting itself with acids.
What is mucous membrane?
This is the tube food slides down before going to the stomach.
What is the oesophagus?
This term describes digestion that physically breaks down the food into smaller pieces.
What is mechanical digestion?
The process of how nutrients leave the digestive system and enters the bloodstream.
Iodine turns from yellow/orange to blue/black in the presence of this nutrient.
What is Starch?
These are the finger like projections that extend into the small intestine an absorb nutrients from the digested food.
What are the villi?
These are the smooth muscle contractions that occur in the esophagus and small intestine to move the food along.
What is peristalsis?
This form of digestion involves substances such as enzymes and acids being introduced into the digestive process.
What is chemical digestion?
What is assimilation?
This is a simple carbohydrate, and causes Benedict's solution to turn from blue to brick-red.