The Digestive System

Question 1

Mouth

Answer 1

The digestive process starts in your mouth when you chew. Your salivary glands make saliva, a digestive juice, which moistens food so it moves more easily through your esophagus into your stomach. Saliva also has an enzyme that begins to break down starches in your food.

Question 2

Salivary glands

Answer 2

Produce saliva which contains a starch-digesting enzyme called salivary amylase

Question 3

Pharynx

Answer 3

Swallows the chewed food mixed with saliva called bolus

Question 4

Esophagus

Answer 4

Moves the bolus to the stomach

Question 5

Stomach

Answer 5

Mixes and churns food with gastric juice that contain acid and a protein-digesting enzyme called pepsin creating chyme

Question 6

Liver

Answer 6

Makes bile which aids in the digestion and absorption of fat

Question 7

Pancreas

Answer 7

Releases bicarbonate to neutralize intestinal contents;
produces enzymes that digest carbohydrates, protein, and fat

Question 8

Gallbladder

Answer 8

Stores bile and releases it into the small intestine when needed

Question 9

Small Intestine

Answer 9

Digests food and absorbs nutrients into blood or lymph

Question 10

Large Intestine

Answer 10

Absorbs water and some vitamins and minerals;
home to intestinal bacteria; passes waste material

Question 11

Anus

Answer 11

Opens to allow waste to leave the body