Healthy Living

Question 1

Digestive system

What organs play a role in the digestive system?

Answer 1

All organs

Question 2

The oral cavity

What are the names of the proteins in our saliva?

Answer 2

Enzymes

Question 3

Out of what is saliva produced?

Answer 3

Three different salivary glands

Question 4

What does the tongue do in the digestive system?

Answer 4

It helps mix the food with the saliva which makes it easier for the food to go down the pharynx

Question 5

The Oesophagus

What’s the name of the little flap in the throat?

Answer 5

Epiglottis

Question 6

What does the epiglottis do?

Answer 6

It prevents the food from entering the windpipe

Question 7

What does the oesophagus do?

Answer 7

It’s a muscular tube that connects the throat to the stomach

Question 8

The stomach

What does the stomach produce?

Answer 8

Enzymes

Question 9

What do the enzymes do?

Answer 9

The help digest the food even further

Question 10

What’s produces inside the stomach?

Answer 10

Acids

Question 11

What do the acids do in the stomach?

Answer 11

They help digest the food and they help kill acids

Question 12

After the stomach where does the food go next?

Answer 12

Into the small intestine

Question 13

The small intestine

How long is the small intestine?

Answer 13

About 3.5 times your body/ 7 meters

Question 14

What’s absorbed in the small intestine?

Answer 14

The nutrients from the food are absorbed into the blood stream

Question 15

Liver, gal bladder

What does the liver produce?

Answer 15

Bile

Question 16

What does bike do?

Answer 16

It helps the digestion of fat

Question 17

Pancreas

What does the pancreas produce?

Answer 17

It produces a fluid containing anzumessende

Question 18

What does the fluid do?

Answer 18

It helps digesting proteins, lipids and carbohydrates

Question 19

Where do the gal bladder and the pancreas excrete their fluids?

Answer 19

In the duodenum

Question 20

What is a duodenum?

Answer 20

A part of the small intestine

Question 21

The appendix

What is the appendix?

Answer 21

It is a 8-10 cm long hollow tube

Question 22

What is the appendix connected to?

Answer 22

Large intestine

Question 23

What does the appendix store?

Answer 23

Good bacteria

Question 24

What can that good bacteria be used for?

Answer 24

It can repopulate the large intestine when needed

Question 25

Large intestine(colon)

What’s absorbed in the large intestine and blood stream?

Answer 25

Water and some salts

Question 26

What’s not produced in the large intestine?

Answer 26

Digestive enzymes

Question 27

What does the large intestine contain?

Answer 27

A lot of healthy bacteria

Question 28

What do those healthy bacteria’s do?

Answer 28

They help digestion and they also produce vitamins

Question 29

Rectum and Anus

What does the rectum store?

Answer 29

Feaces until it’s released

Question 30

What are feaces?

Answer 30

It’s poo

Question 31

What does the anus control?

Answer 31

It controls the expulsion of feaces

Question 32

Nutrients and their destination

What do the intestines contain?

Answer 32

They contain many small blood vessels

Question 33

What’s the name of those blood vessels?

Answer 33

Capillaries

Question 34

What do the capillaries do?

Answer 34

They absorb nutrients