Chapter 8 Test your knowledge concepts

Question 1

The squeezing of food through a hollow muscular structure is called

Answer 1

Peristalsis

Question 2

What does Bile do?

Answer 2

Emulsifies fat

Question 3

What is not a function of the liver in adults

Answer 3

Makes RBC’s

Question 4

The large intestine

Answer 4

absorbes water

Question 5

Removes nondigestible remains

Answer 5

Large intestine

Question 6

Serves as a passageway

Answer 6

Esophagus

Question 7

A hormone that stimulates the stomach to secrete gastric juice.

Answer 7

Gastrin

Question 8

Stores food

Answer 8

Stomach

Question 9

Absorbs nutrients

Answer 9

Small intestine

Question 10

Receives food

Answer 10

Mouth

Question 11

The amino acids that must be consumed in the diet are called essential. Nonessential amino acids

Answer 11

Can be produced by the body

Question 12

Breaks apart fat molecules into fatty acids and glycerol

Answer 12

Lipase

Question 13

Mucous protects the stomach from

Answer 13

HCl and pepsin

Question 14

What from the duodenal wall stimulates the pancreas to secrete digestive juice and the gallbladder to release bile?

Answer 14

Secretin and CCK

Question 15

What from the lower stomach feeds back to stimulate the upper part of the stomach to produce digestive juice?

Answer 15

Gastrin

Question 16

The first part of the small intestine

Answer 16

Duodenum

Question 17

Chyme enters through a

Answer 17

sphincter.

Question 18

produced by cells of the duodenum

Answer 18

Secretin

Question 19

Breaks long carbohydrates into disaccharides which then break apart into monosaccharides that can be absorbed by the cells lining your small intestine

Answer 19

Pancreatic amylase

Question 20

Material that can’t be further digested or used passes onto the ?

Answer 20

Large intestine

Question 21

Nutrients gained from digested food diffuse through the walls of

Answer 21

Small intestine, through the capillaries walls, across the interstitial fluid, and into your cells

Question 22

If the level of glucose it too high its called

Answer 22

Hyperglycemia