Digestive System Functions

Question 1

The digestive process starts here, our salivary glands make saliva, a digestive juice, which moistens food so it moves more easily through your esophagus into your stomach.

Answer 1

Mouth

Question 2

Produces saliva, which keeps the mouth and other parts of the digestive system moist. It also helps break down carbohydrates and lubricates the passage of food.

Answer 2

Sublingual Gland

Question 3

Serves both digestive and respiratory functions, acts as a fork in the road to the esophagus or trachea.

Answer 3

Pharynx

Question 4

Functions as a lid to the larynx, during the act of swallowing, to prevent food from entering trachea while one is eating.

Answer 4

Epiglottis

Question 5

Functions as a transport tube that directs the progression of food and fluids from the mouth to the stomach.

Answer 5

Esophagus

Question 6

Digests food, temporarily stores food, and mixes and breaks down food by contractions and relaxations of the stomach muscles.

Answer 6

Stomach

Question 7

Tube like structure that carries bile from the gallbladder and empties it into the duodenum.

Answer 7

Common Bile Duct

Question 8

First segment of the small intestine, responsible for continually breaking down food.

Answer 8

Duodenum

Question 9

Absorbs sugars, amino acids, and fatty acids.

Answer 9

Jejunum

Question 10

Absorbs minerals, carbs, fats, and proteins.

Answer 10

Ileum

Question 11

Connects the ileum and the cecum, through which chyme passes through ileum to the colon.

Answer 11

Ileocecal Junction

Question 12

Absorbs fluids and salts, mixes digested contents with a lubricating mucus.

Answer 12

Cecum

Question 13

UNKNOWN; possibly a storehouse of good bacteria.

Answer 13

Appendix

Question 14

Absorbs the remaining water and other key nutrients from the indigestible material, solidifying it to form stool.

Answer 14

Ascending Colon

Question 15

Absorbs water. and continues to solidify undigestible material.

Answer 15

Transverse Colon

Question 16

Stores feces that will be eventually emptied into the rectum.

Answer 16

Descending Colon

Question 17

This colon increases pressure to move the stool into the rectum.

Answer 17

Sigmoid Colon

Question 18

Stores stool until it is pushed out of anus.

Answer 18

Rectum

Question 19

The end of the gastrointestinal tract, internal anal sphincter relaxes and pushes stool out canal.

Answer 19

Anus

Question 20

Concentrates bile from liver and stores it for later.

Answer 20

Gall Blader

Question 21

A tube that carries bile from the liver.

Answer 21

Hepatic Duct

Question 22

Makes a digestive juice called bile that helps digest fats and vitamins.

Answer 22

Liver

Question 23

Makes juices called enzymes, which help break down fats, starches, and sugars. This organ also makes hormones.

Answer 23

Pancreas