Test- Digestive Flashcards
- What structure enables the small intestine to absorb large amounts of nutrients?
Villi
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6. Which of the following organs is considered to be a part of the alimentary canal? Pancreas Liver Gallbladder All None
None
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- When chyme enters the small intestine_____.
Large amount of chyme is present
Enzymes are absorbed into small intestinal wall from chyme
And acid solution from the small intestine neutralizes the basic chyme solution
All
None
None
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- The process by which waste is eliminated is?
Defecation
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- Which nutrients are made up of amino acids?
Proteins
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- What process involves muscle contractions that move food through the esophagus?
Peristalsis
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- Where does digestion of carbohydrates begin?
Mouth
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- The process by which nutrients molecules pass through the wall of the digestive system and into the blood is called?
Absorption
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- Nutrient molecules pass from the small intestine into the bloodstream through tiny structures called________.
VILLI
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- About half of the different ________that make up proteins in the body.
Amino acid
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- On of the roles of the ______ is to prepare waste material for elimination.
Large intestine
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- Food is pushed through the esophagus to the stomach by the waves of muscles contraction know as ABSORPTION.
F, peristalsis
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- Bacteria in the ESOPHAGUS make vitamin K.
F, small intestine
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- What two parts in the digestive system does not have food going through it.
Liver pancreas
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- Identify C, E, F, D
C-pancreas E- small intestine F- large intestine D-Anus
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- What are organs D and F how do they compare in size.
F large intestine is shorter and larger than E small intestine
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- What is peristalsis. Give the letters of the two organs in which it occurs.
It Is involuntary waves of muscle contraction. A esophagus B stomach
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- Name the structures that are found in the inside of the small intestine.
Sturcutures are villi
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- What is the organ which food is absorbed?
Small intestine
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- What is above the small intestine?
Liver. Which produces bile to help to break sold down into smaller particles.
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- What does the gallbladder do?
Stores the bile produced by the liver and passes the bi.e through a tube in the small intestine to aid the digestion of fat particles.
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- What is the teeth in the very back of your mouth?
Molars
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