Digestive System

Question 1

What are the two methods in which food is broke down within the body?

Answer 1

Mechanical digestion

Chemical digestion

Question 2

The process in which the food is physical broken down into smaller pieces

Answer 2

Mechanical digestion

Question 3

Food is broken down into smaller pieces by chemical manipulation of enzymes and acids

Answer 3

Chemical digestion

Question 4

What do salivary glands do?

Answer 4

They produce enzymes that break down carbohydrates

Question 5

What is the alimentary canal?

Answer 5

This is the pathway in which food passes through your body

Question 6

What are the functions of the digestive system?

Answer 6

• break down food into a soluble form so that nutrients can be absorbed into the body
• eliminate insoluble waste from the body

Question 7

Mouth
Pharynx
Esophagus
Stomach
Small intestine
Large intestine

Answer 7

All found in the alimentary canal

Question 8

Small ball of food created by the tongue when chewing food

Answer 8

Bolus

Question 9

What is the pharynx?

Answer 9

Technical term for throat

The bolus is swallowed passes through the pharynx and travels down into the esophagus

Question 10

What are the parts of the stomach?

Answer 10

Cardiac sphincter
Fundus
Body
Pylorus
Pyloric sphincter

Question 11

The round band of muscle located at the top of the stomach

Answer 11

Cardiac sphincter

Question 12

What is the fundus?

Answer 12

Makes up the rounded upper section of the stomach and acts as a storage space for undigested food and stomach gases that are produced by chemical digestion

Question 13

What are the parts of the small intestine?

Answer 13

Duodenum
Jejunum
Ileum

Question 14

The larger middle section of the stomach where physical and chemical digestion occurs

Answer 14

The body of the stomach

Question 15

Bolus that has passed through the pylorus becomes this soupy substance

Answer 15

Chyme

Question 16

What is the pylorus?

Answer 16

The pylorus is the last section of the stomach that stores the digested food from the body of the stomach before it passes into the small intestine.

Question 17

Round band of muscle located at the bottom of the stomach that allows chyme to travel from the pylorus into the small intestine

Answer 17

Pyloric sphincter

Question 18

What is illeum?

Answer 18

Illeum is also lined with villi and microvilli to help with the absorption nutrients and lipids

Question 19

What are Small finger like projections of tissue?

Answer 19

villi

Question 20

What is the pancreas considered and why?

Answer 20

Considered to be a gland and an organ because it produces hormones to assist with the endocrine system and enzymes help break down food in the digestive system

Question 21

What does pancreatic amylase?

Answer 21

Breaks down carbs

Question 22

What is the pancreatic lipase?

Answer 22

Breaks down fats

Question 23

What is trypsin ?

Answer 23

Breaks down proteins

Question 24

What is peristalsis?

Answer 24

Peristalsis is a series of wave-like muscle contractions that moves food to different processing stations in the digestive tract. The process of peristalsis begins in the esophagus when a bolus of food is swallowed.