Unit 2: digestive system

Question 1

These mechanically break up your food

Answer 1

teeth

Question 2

this is the passageway through which the food moves through when you swollow

Answer 2

esophagus

Question 3

This is the route of the food through the digestive system

Answer 3

mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, large intestines, anus

Question 4

This organ disinfects the food

Answer 4

stomach

Question 5

This organ makes bile to digest lipids

Answer 5

liver

Question 6

The bile is stored in the ______

Answer 6

gall bladder

Question 7

Bile and enzymes digest food here

Answer 7

small intestines

Question 8

bacteria naturally live here, and they help you digest

Answer 8

the intestines (2nd best answer: mouth)

Question 9

Where gum gets stuck

Answer 9

Nowhere! gum passes right through the digestive system

Question 10

Where water is reabsorbed

Answer 10

large intestines

Question 11

Where nutrients are absorbed

Answer 11

small intestines

Question 12

The organ that causes diarrhea

Answer 12

large intestines

Question 13

What hurts when you feel a belly ache

Answer 13

small intestines

Question 14

What hurts when you feel heartburn

Answer 14

esophagus

Question 15

The organ that causes constipation

Answer 15

large intestines

Question 16

Where undigested food and bacteria exit the body

Answer 16

anus

Question 17

Which organs build enzymes?

Answer 17

Salivary glands Pancreas Stomach

Question 18

Which organ detoxes any poisons you eat?

Answer 18

liver

Question 19

Which organs assist the digestive system but never hold the food?

Answer 19

salivary glands, liver, pancreas, gall bladder, (appendix?)

Question 20

Where is the appendix located?

Answer 20

between the small and large intestines right side of your body

Question 21

True or false: the stomach is located inside the rib cage.

Answer 21

True! The stomach has to be protected. If it were damaged, all that acid would leak out and destroy the other organs.

Question 22

Answer 22

Appendix

Question 23

What 4 organs are pictured below?

Answer 23

liver

gall bladder

pancreas

small intestine

Question 24

What causes a belly ache?

Answer 24

gas produced by bacteria in the intestines

Question 25

Where is the cancer located?

Answer 25

the colon

Question 26

What ailment is shown in the picture?

Answer 26

heart burn

Question 27

What 2 organs are shown in the picture?

Answer 27

Large intestines

small intestines

Question 28

Answer 28

liver

Question 29

An inmate smuggled a cell phone into the prision. Where is it in his body?

Answer 29

The rectum

Question 30

Answer 30

salivary glands

Question 31

Answer 31

small intestines

Question 32

Answer 32

stomach

Question 33

Which ogan of the digestive system has villi? Why?

Answer 33

Villi are like the loops on a towel. They are there to increase absorbtion. The towel or this organ can absorb more because it has increased surface area.

The organ that does the absorbing of nutrients is the small intestines.

Question 34

What ailment is pictured below?

What causes it?

Answer 34

a stomach ulcer

caused by bacteria that can survive the stomach acid and infect the stomach wall

Question 35

What happens when you throw up?

Answer 35

food and stomach acid travel up the esophagus and out of the mouth