Digestive Sys

Question 1

What is the digestive system responsibilty?

Answer 1

Breaking down foods into material the body can use for energy and building body tissue

Question 2

What is the enzyme known for break down starches?

Answer 2

Salivary Amylase

Question 3

What is gastric acid and pepsin used for in the stomach?

Answer 3

helps break down proteins

Question 4

Where does digestion take place in?

Answer 4

Small intestine

Question 5

How long is the small intenstine?

Answer 5

23 Foot long

Question 6

How is food broken down?

Answer 6

By enzymes produced in the walls of the small intestine in the pancreas and liver

Question 7

What is the acid called produced by the pancreas?

Answer 7

Lipase

Question 8

What does lipase do?

Answer 8

converts fat to glycerol and fatty acids

Question 9

What does pancreatic amylase?

Answer 9

Breaks down complex carbohydrates into simple sugars

Question 10

What is tyrpsin?

Answer 10

converts polypetides into amino acids

Question 11

What molecule is responsible for proteins?

Answer 11

polypetides

Question 12

What produces bile?

Answer 12

Liver

Question 13

The large intestine is also known as the?

Answer 13

Colon

Question 14

What does the large intestine do?

Answer 14

Water and Minerals remaining in the waste matter absorbed back into the body

Question 15

Chemical waste. minerals and water are filtered from the blood by?

Answer 15

Kidneys

Question 16

Where is urine transported?

Answer 16

to the bladder from the kidneys through the ureters

Question 17

Where is solid waste stored?

Answer 17

Rectum

Question 18

Where is urine released

Answer 18

Urethra