Test - Digestive System

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Villi

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Fiber

Question 3

6. What are some organs that are not considered to be a part of the alimentary canal?

Answer 3

Pancreas
Liver
Gallbladder

Question 4

9. What is a bolus?

Answer 4

It is what food is called after it’s been partially broken down in the mouth

Question 5

13. Which nutrients are made up of amino acid?

Answer 5

Proteins

Question 6

16. What is not a function of the digestive system?

Answer 6

Obtaining oxygen

Question 7

21. What process involves muscle contractions that move food though the esophagus?

Answer 7

Elimination

Question 8

23. Where does digestive of carbohydrates begin?

Answer 8

In the mouth

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Hydrochloric acid

Question 10

25. Where does the alimentary canal end?

Answer 10

Large intestine

Question 11

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

Answer 11

So our bodies can use the nutrients from the food

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Pancreas

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Absorption

Question 14

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

Answer 14

Villi

Question 15

35. About half of the different _______________ that make up proteins are made inside the body.

Answer 15

Amino acids

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Gallbladder

Question 17

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

Answer 17

False “peristalsis”

Question 18

42. Water from the digestive system is absorbed in the large intestine

Answer 18

True

Question 19

43. Bacteria in the “esophagus” make vitamin K

Answer 19

False “Large intestine”

Question 20

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

Answer 20

False “Chemical”

Question 21

45. What is one organ food doesn’t travel through?

Answer 21

Pancreas

Question 22

46. The pancreas is ______________ to then esophagus than your _____________

Answer 22

Closer

Rectum

Question 23

49. What makes the large intestine bigger than the small intestine?

Answer 23

The large intestine is larger in diameter

Question 24

50. What is peristalsis?

Answer 24

Peristalsis is involuntary waves of muscle contractions.

Question 25

51. What is the structure that provides large surface area for absorption?

Answer 25

Villi

Question 26

52. Could the duodenum perform its function without the pancreas

Answer 26

It could not because without those enzymes chemical digestion could not be completed

Question 27

53. Where is food absorbed?

Answer 27

The small intestine

Question 28

54. What is the liver function?

Answer 28

It produces bile that helps to break fat down into smaller particles