Test - Digestive System

Question 1

5. What carbohydrate helps your digestive system function even though your body cannot digest it?

Answer 1

Fiber

Question 2

11. When Chyme enters the small intestine

Answer 2

Nothing occurs

Question 3

13. Which nutrients are made up of amino acids?

Answer 3

Proteins

Question 4

20. If you wanted to find the glands that produce salivary amylase, where would you look?

Answer 4

Under your younger

Question 5

23. Where digestion of carbohydrates begin?

Answer 5

Mouth

Question 6

24. What substance must be present in the stomach for pepsin to work best?

Answer 6

Hydrochloric acid

Question 7

28. What digestive organs releases enzymes that help break down starches, proteins, and fats in the small intestine?

Answer 7

Pancreas

Question 8

30. The process by which nutrient molecules pass through the wall of the digestive system and into the blood is called?

Answer 8

Absorption

Question 9

33. What is chyme?

Answer 9

It is what food is called after it’s been digested by the stomach

Question 10

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

Answer 10

False, peristalsis

Question 11

43. Bacteria in the esophagus makes vitamin K

Answer 11

False, Large intestine

Question 12

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

Answer 12

False, chemical

Question 13

48. Using the digestive system, give the names of the two organs shown in the diagram though which food doesn’t travel

Answer 13

After leaving the stomach, food enters the small intestine

Question 14

49. Using the digestive system, what does the small intestine do and the large intestine and how do they compare in size?

Answer 14

The large intestine is shorter and longer than the small intestine

Question 15

50. Using the digestive system, what is peristalsis?

Answer 15

Peristalsis is involuntary waves of muscle contraction

Question 16

51. Using the upper part of the digestive system, name the line or a found on the inside of the duodenum and describe the function.

Answer 16

The structures are villi, nutrient Molecules pass into cells on the surface from villus and from there into blood vessels, the villi provides a large surface for absorption.

Question 17

52. Using the upper part of the digestive system, what specifically is the name of the area of the duodenum showing? In general could the duodenum perform its function without organ B, explain?

Answer 17

Without the pancreas or duodenum, that produces enzymes, we wouldn’t be able to complete chemical digestion. So the small intestine would be unable to small nutrients into the blood stream.