Task 10: The Digestive System

Question 1

Ingestion

Answer 1

Food is taken into body-mouth.

Question 2

Digestion

Answer 2

Food is broken down into soluble substances, starts in mouth with the chemical digestion of starch and continues in stomach and small intestine-mouth, stomach, small intestine

Question 3

Absorption

Answer 3

Soluble products are absorbed into blood stream and transported round body- ileum.

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

Soluble products of digestion are taken into cells where they are used-all living cells.

Question 5

Egestion

Answer 5

Removal of waste (defecation)-anus