The Digestive System

Question 1

Ingesting/eating

Answer 1

Food is taken in by the body

Question 2

Digestion

Answer 2

Food is broken down

Question 3

Absorption

Answer 3

Digested food passes into the bloodstream

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

Using the food in the cells of the body

Question 5

Elimination

Answer 5

Getting rid of undigested food

Question 6

Physical digestion

Answer 6

Taking large pieces of food and breakfast them down into smaller pieces.
Happens in the mouth(teeth) and stomach

Question 7

Chemical digestion

Answer 7

Involves the use of the chemicals called enzymes to break down food.

Question 8

How enzymes work

Answer 8

Enzymes act on a substrate and breaks it down into a product e.g: substrate =starch,enzymes =product = maltose (sugar)

Question 9

Enzymes

Answer 9

Are chemicals that speed up reactions without being used up in the reaction

Question 10

Chemical digestion

Answer 10

Most chemical digestion happens in small intestine

Question 11

Chemical digestion

Answer 11

Amylase in mouth
Enzymes in the stomach
Bile made in liver to break down fat
Pancreas makes digestive juices which contain enzymes