The Digestive System

Question 1

What is the stomachs function?

Answer 1

To digest food.

Question 2

What helps food stay in the stomach?

Answer 2

The cardiac sphincter.

Question 3

What region of the stomach does food enter through?

Answer 3

The cardiac reigon.

Question 4

What are the three layers of the small intestine?

Answer 4

1. Duodenum
2. Jejunum
3. Ilium

Question 5

What is the primary function of the small intestine?

Answer 5

Absorb nutrients.

Question 6

What role do villi have within the digestive system?

Answer 6

Absorb nutrients.

Question 7

How does the small intestine absorb nutrients?

Answer 7

Food is digested by enzymes released by the pancreas.

Question 8

What is peristalsis?

Answer 8

Mechanical digestion.

Question 9

What is the function of the large intestine?

Answer 9

Absorb water from food residue to complete the process of turning food into faeces.

Question 10

Describe the process of digestion.
(6 stages)

Answer 10

1. Food is mechanically digested.
2. Food becomes bolos and is transported through the esophagus into the cardiac region of the stomach.
3. The stomach carries out chemical digestion, turning the bolos into chyme.
4. Chyme leaves the stomach through the cardiac sphincter into the small intestine.
5. The small intestine absorbs nutrients, passing the residue into the large intestine. Then the large intestine absorbs residual fluid and some nutrients.
6. Faeces is passed through the anus.