Digestive System

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

Physical digestion

Answer 6

Taking large pieces of food and breaking them down into smaller pieces happens in the mouth (teeth stomach (churning)

Question 7

Chemical digestion

Answer 7

Involves the use of chemicals called enzymes to break down food

Question 8

Enzymes

Answer 8

Are chemicals that speed up reactions without being used up in the reaction

Question 9

How enzymes work

Answer 9

Enzymes act on a substrate and breaks down into a product e.g. substrate=starch, enzyme=amylase (saliva), product=maltose (sugar)

Question 10

Most chemical digestion happens in the?.
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Answer 10

Small intestine

Question 11

Bile

Answer 11

Made in liver to break down fats

Question 12

Pancreas makes?…

Answer 12

Digestive juices which contain enzymes