Chapter 32
Digestive and Excretory
Systems
Jeopardy!
Round 1
Kidney
Liver
GI Tract
Part I
GI Tract
Part II
Nutrition
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Round 2
Kidney – 10 points
• The kidneys are the main organ of
this system
• What is the excretory system
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Kidney – 20 points
• The three main processes that occur
in the nephron are filtration,
reabsorption and __?__
• What is excretion
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Kidney – 30 points
• The portion of the nephron where
filtration occurs
• What is the glomerulus
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Kidney – 40 points
• The portion of the nephron that
collects the filtrate (which becomes
urine)
• What is the Bowman’s capsule
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Kidney– 50 points
• The activity of the kidneys is
controlled by hormones and by __?__
• The composition of the blood (how
much water vs salts)
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Liver – 10 points
• The liver secretes this substance
which aids in digestion of fatty foods
• What is bile?
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Liver – 20 points
• The liver converts ammonia into this
substance
• What is urea?
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Liver – 30 points
• The liver secretes bile into this
portion of the small intestine
• What is the duodenum
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Liver – 40 points
• The main functions of the liver are to
store glycogen and secrete bile to
break down __?__
• What are fats
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Liver – 50 points
• Name a function of the liver OTHER
THAN secreting bile, converting
ammonia, or detoxifying substances
• What is: (any one of these)
destroying old red blood cells or
storing nutrients or producing
clotting factors or producing organic
molecules
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GI Tract Part I – 10 points
• The four stages of food processing
are: ingestion, digestion, _?_ and _?_
• What are absorption and elimination
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GI Tract Part I – 20 points
• Which type(s) of digestion begin(s) in
the mouth
• What are chemical and mechanical
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GI Tract Part I – 30 points
• Name the wave-like motion that
moves food through the esophagus
• What is peristalsis?
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GI Tract Part I – 40 points
• Digestion of carbohydrates begins
here
• What is the mouth
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GI Tract Part I– 50 points
• Digestion of proteins occurs here
• What is the stomach
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GI Tract Part II– 10 points
• Most digestion occurs in this part of
the GI Tract
• What is the duodenum
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GI Tract Part II – 20 points
• This organ helps digest fat and
protein
• What is the pancreas
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GI Tract Part II – 30 points
• These organs help digest fat
• What are the liver, gallbladder and
pancreas
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GI Tract Part II – 40 points
• Digestion of fats and sugars occur
here
• What is the small intestine
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GI Tract Part III – 50 points
• This chemical, secreted by the
salivary glands, begins the chemical
digestion of starches
• What is amylase
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Nutrition – 10 points
• The inorganic molecule needed to
regulate digestion and flush toxic
wastes from the body
• What is water
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Nutrition – 20 points
• The main source of energy for the
body
• What are carbohydrates
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Nutrition – 30 points
• This nutrient is necessary for growth
and repair of body cells as well as to
make enzymes
• What are proteins
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Nutrition – 40 points
• This nutrient is important because it
provides energy as well as the
materials for cell membranes
• What are fats?
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Nutrition – 50 points
• This type of fat is full of single bonds
• What are saturated fats
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Final Jeopardy
Round 2
Kidney
Nutrients
GI Tract
Misc.
GI Tract
Remix
Misc
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Kidney – 20 points
• Name the structure
which is indicated on
the lower left of the
picture
• What is the urinary
bladder
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Kidney – 40 points
• Name the
structure
indicated in the
lower right of the
picture
• What is the
urethra
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Kidney– 60 points
• The tube that carries urine to the
urinary bladder
• What is the ureter
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Kidney– 80 points
• The hormone that stimulates
nephrons to reabsorb more water
• What is ADH (antidiuretic hormone)
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Kidney– 100 points
• The name of structure
#4
• Loop of Henle
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Nutrients – 20 points
• The monomers of carbohydrates are
called
• What are monosaccharides?
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Nutrients – 40 points
• The monomers of proteins
• What are amino acids
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Nutrients – 60 points
• A type of sugar that is a long chain of
sugar monomers
• What is starch
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Nutrients – 80 points
• The term that indicates a nutrient
cannot be made by the body
• What is “essential”
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Nutrients – 100 points
• Inorganic compounds that are
necessary to build and repair tissues;
the body does not make any of these
• What are minerals
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GI Tract Misc. – 20 points
• Name of the hormone secreted by
the pancreas that increases the
amount of glucose that enters body
cells
• What is insulin
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GI Tract Misc – 40 points
• An eating disorder characterized by
self-starvation
• What is anorexia?
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GI Tract Misc. – 60 points
• A term which describes a diet lacking
in 1 or more essential nutrients
• What is malnutrition
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GI Tract Misc – 80 points
• This is the type of digestion which
includes chewing and stomach
contractions
• What is mechanical digestion
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GI Tract Misc – 100 points
• This is the term used to describe a
mass of chewed food and saliva
• What is a bolus
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GI Tract Remix – 20 points
• The process by which cells take up
small molecules
• What is absorption
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GI Tract Remix – 40 points
• Elimination is the process by which
__?__ material leaves the body
• What is undigested
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GI Tract Remix – 60 points
• The name of the substance, secreted
into the stomach, that digests
proteins
• What is pepsin
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GI Tract Remix – 80 points
• The purpose of HCl in the stomach
• What is “lowers pH so that pepsin can
work”
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GI Tract Remix – 100 points
• The name of the tiny structures that
increase the surface area of the small
intestine
• What are villi and/or microvilli
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Miscellaneous – 20 points
• The name of the reaction by which
complex molecules are broken down
into simpler molecules
• What is the hydrolysis reaction
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Miscellaneous – 40 points
• Organic molecules that work with
enzymes
• What are vitamins
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Miscellaneous – 60 points
• The specific location
of this structure
• What is the cortex
and medulla of the
kidney
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Miscellaneous – 80 points
• The reason our bodies need food is to
produce this energy storage molecule
• What is ATP
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Miscellaneous – 100 points
• The type of vitamin that can be
stored in the body
• What are fat-soluble vitamins
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Final Jeopardy
Write down the amount you wish
to wager on this question
Final Jeopardy
• The response of the kidneys when
there is too much water in the blood
• What is, “the kidneys will reabsorb
less water” (this will result in light
colored, dilute urine)