Digestion

Question 1

Ingestion / eating

Answer 1

Food is taken in by the body

Question 2

Digestion

Answer 2

Food is broken down

Question 3

Absorption

Answer 3

Digested food passes into the bloodstream.

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

Using the food in the cells of the body

Question 5

Elimination

Answer 5

Getting rid of undigested food

Question 6

Enzymes

Answer 6

Invoves the use of chemicals called enzymes to break down food .

Enzymes are chemicals that speed up reactions without being used up in the reaction

Enzymes act on a substrate and breaks it down into a product .

Example substrate = starch , enzyme = amylase ( salvila ) , product = mailtose ( sugar ) .

Question 7

Most chemical digestion happens

Answer 7

In the small intestine

Question 8

Bile

Answer 8

Made in liver to break down fats

Question 9

Pancreas makes

Answer 9

Digestive juices which contain enzymes

Question 10

Physical digestion

Answer 10

Happens in the : mouth ( teeth ) Stomach ( churning )

Question 11

Mouth

Answer 11

Physical and chemical digestion

Question 12

Oesophagus

Answer 12

Brings food from mouth to stomach

Question 13

Liver

Answer 13

Makes bile

Question 14

Stomach

Answer 14

Physical and chemical digestion

Question 15

Pancreas

Answer 15

Makes digestive juices

Question 16

Small intestine

Answer 16

Most chemical digestion

Question 17

Large intestine

Answer 17

Water reabsorption

Question 18

Rectum

Answer 18

Stores undigested food

Question 19

Anus

Answer 19

Undigested food passes out

Question 20

Gall bladder

Answer 20

Storage of bile

Question 21

Types of teeth

Answer 21

Incisors , canine , pre - motars , motars