Spencer, Elisabeth quiz: digestion begins

Question 0

3. The process in which your body breaks down food into small nutrient molecules is called

Answer 0

Digestion

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Question 1

1. What is one place where chemical and mechanical digestion take place?

Answer 1

Stomach

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Question 2

13. Why do we need to break apart the food we eat?

Answer 2

So our bodies can use the nutrients from the food

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Question 3

17. What organs are considered accessory organs of digestion?

Answer 3

Liver, pancreas, teeth, gallbladder

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Question 4

20. What process involves muscle contractions that moves food through the esophagus and other organs of the digestive system?

Answer 4

Peristalsis

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Question 5

22. When in anatomical position, which part of the body is directly below the left rib?

Answer 5

Stomach

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Question 6

23. The alimentary canal does NOT contain which of the following organs?

Answer 6

Salivary glands

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Question 7

24. What parts of the digestive system primarily absorb water??

Answer 7

No part of the digestive system absorbs water.

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Question 8

25. you wanted to find the tissue that secrets pepsin, where would you look?

Answer 8

In your stomach lining

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