Animal Digestive System

Question 1

Types Of Animals Based On Feeding Mechanisms

Answer 1

Substrate-feeders
Filter-feeders
Fluid-feeders
Bulk-feeders

Question 2

animals that live in or on their food source.

Examples: earthworms that feed through the soil where they live in; caterpillars that eat through the leaves where they live.

Answer 2

Substrate-feeders

Question 3

include many aquatic animals that draw in water and strain small organisms and food particles present in the medium. Examples: whales and coelenterates

Answer 3

Filter-feeders

Question 4

suck fluids containing nutrients from a living host.

Examples: mosquitoes, leeches, head lice, aphids

Answer 4

Fluid-feeders

Question 5

eat relatively large chunks of food and have adaptations like jaws, teeth, tentacles, claws, pincers, etc. that help in securing the food and tearing it to pieces. Examples: snakes, cats, man

Answer 5

Bulk-feeders

Question 6

animals with four-part stomachs, which allows them to chew food more than once.

Answer 6

Ruminants

Question 7

What are the four chambers of ruminants

Answer 7

Rumen
Reticulum
Abomasum
Omasum

Question 8

essentially like a tube with an opening at one end for taking in food (mouth) and an opening at the other end where unabsorbed waste materials are eliminated (anus). In between the mouth and anus, are specialized organs that carry out transport, processing, and absorption of digested nutrients.

Answer 8

Complete Digestive System

Question 9

Food moves through the human digestive system through ______.

Answer 9

peristalsis

Question 10

is the involuntary muscle movement that moves food through your gastrointestinal tract.

Answer 10

Peristalsis

Question 11

Organs of the digestive system

Answer 11

Oral Cavity
Pharynx
Esophagus
Stomach
Small intestine
Large intestine
Rectum
Anus

Question 12

mixes and stores ingested food, secretes gastric juice that helps dissolve and degrade the food, and regulates the passage of food into the small intestine.

Answer 12

Stomach

Question 13

carries out most of the digestive process, absorbing almost all of the nutrients you get from foods into your bloodstream.

Answer 13

Small intestine

Question 14

When food residue remains in the large intestine for extended periods, excessive water is absorbed and the stool becomes hard and difficult to pass, causing _____

Answer 14

Constipation

Question 15

Watery stools, or _____, result from any condition that rushes undigested food residue through the large intestine before it has had sufficient time to absorb the water.

Answer 15

Diarrhea