Test-Digestive System.

Question 1

2. Which of the following organs is considered to be a part of the alimentary canal(pancreas, all of these, gallbladder, liver, or none of these)?

Answer 1

p. 60 none of these

Question 2

10. In what part of the body does most chemical digestion take place (pancreas, large intestine, liver, small intestine)

Answer 2

p.60 small intestine

Question 3

12. What organ stores bile?

Answer 3

P.59 gall bladder

Question 4

18. Where does digestion of carbohydrates begin?

Answer 4

Brain-pop Mouth

Question 5

22. A flap of tissue that seals off the windpipe, preventing food from entering?

Answer 5

pg. 59 Esophagus

Question 6

23. Where does the alimentary canal end?

Answer 6

Brainpop Large Intestine

Question 7

24. What structure enables the small intestine to absorb large amounts of nutrients

Answer 7

pg. 59 vili

Question 8

What is a bolus?

Answer 8

pg.59 It is what is called after its been partially broken down in the mouth.

Question 9

31. When chyme enters the small intestine,

Answer 9

pg. 59- 61 none of this occurs

Question 10

32. What is a chyme?

Answer 10

pg. 59 food is called after it’s been digested by the stomach

Question 11

33. What process involves muscle contractions that move food through the esophagus?

Answer 11

pg. 59 peristalsis

Question 12

34. Nutrient molecules pass from the small intestine into bloodstream though tiny structures called

Answer 12

pg. 59 Vili

Question 13

35. One of the roles of the ______________is to prepare waste material for elimination

Answer 13

pg. 59 large intestine

Question 14

36. The ___________stores bile and releases it through a tube into the small intestine.

Answer 14

Pg. 60 gallbladder

Question 15

37. About half of the different __________ that make up proteins are made inside the body.

Answer 15

pg. 61 amino acids

Question 16

42. The breakdown of complex food molecules into simpler molecules is mechanical digestion

Answer 16

pg. 59 False, chemical

Question 17

44. Food is pushed through the esophagus to the stomach by the waves of muscle contraction known as absorption?

Answer 17

pg. 59 False, Peristalsis

Question 18

45. What is the organ to the right of the gallbladder?

Answer 18

pg. 60 This organ is the liver, which produces bile that helps break fat down into smaller particles.

Question 19

46. What intestine is the duodenum located in, what is a pancreas digestion? Could the perform its function without the small intestine

Answer 19

pg. 59 Duodenum- the small intestine, pancreas- in chemical digestion. The small intestine, would be unable to absorb small nutrients molecules into the bloodstream.

Question 20

47.What is the gallbladders function?

Answer 20

pg. 59 It stores bile by the the liver

Question 21

48. What are the structures that line or are found on the inside of the duodenum and describe their function.

Answer 21

pg.59 Vili

Question 22

49. What is the organ in which almost all chemical digestion takes place.

Answer 22

p.60 the small intestine

Question 23

50. What is the organ through which food is absorbed.

Answer 23

pg.60 the small intestine

Question 24

51. What are the six organs located in the middle part of your body.

Answer 24

pg. 60 esophagus, stomach, pancreas, rectum, liver, small intestine

Question 25

52. What are the two organs shown through which food does not travel?

Answer 25

pg. 59 pancreas, and liver

Question 26

53. What is the function of the esophagus?

Answer 26

pg. 59. food that is carried from the mouth to the stomach

Question 27

54. What organ into which food moves after leaving the stomach?

Answer 27

pg. 59 After it moves from the stomach it goes to the small intestine

Question 28

55. Is the large intestine larger than the small intestine?

Answer 28

pg. 59 The large intestine is shorter and larger in diameter