Digestive System

Question 1

Salivary glands

Answer 1

Function: break down carbohydrates
neck looking picture

Question 2

esophagus

Answer 2

Function: tube for food to go to stomach
in between vagina and hole

Question 3

liver

Answer 3

Function: produces bile that helps break down fats
actually looks like chopped liver

Question 4

Stomach

Answer 4

Function: holds food and mixes it with acid and enzymes to break down food into chyme and protein digestion

irregularly shaped, right next to the intestines

Question 5

Gall bladder

Answer 5

Function: stores and concentrates bile – then released into the duodenum to help break down and absorb fats

(pretty deep, almost green in between what looks like liver)

Question 6

Small intestine

Answer 6

Function: break down food, absorb nutrients into the blood stream

(pretty small, what i thought the pancreas looked like)

Question 7

Spleen (part of lymphatic system)

Answer 7

Function: stores and filters blood, removing old and damaged red blood cells and makes white cells

(to the right of the picture, dark in color)

Question 8

pancreas

Answer 8

Function: produces digestive enzymes that break down proteins in food
(right next to two blue veins)

Question 9

Large intestine

Answer 9

Function: absorbs water and electrolytes from partially digested food along with vitamins

(looks like chicken skin)

Question 10

Colon (Part of large intestine)

Answer 10

Function: same as large intestine
(looks like a dick)

Question 11

What is the ileocecal valve so important to the digestive system?

Answer 11

Prevents backflow of bacteria from the large intestine to the small intestine preventing infection
(long path, only one that’s a cartoon, tube)

Question 12

Greater Omentum

Answer 12

Function: protective barrier over intestines against infection and inflammation