Digestive System Review
1) List 2 of the 3 functions of the digestive system.
Breaks down food into molecules your body can use, the digested molecules
are absorbed into the blood, and wastes are eliminated from the body
2) What is the process by which your body breaks down food into small
nutrient molecules?
Digestion
3) What is the process by which the nutrient molecules pass through the walls
of your digestive system into your blood?
Absorption
4) What two types of digestion take place in the mouth?
Chemical and Mechanical
5) What is the muscular tube that connects the mouth and the stomach?
Esophagus
6) This part of your digestive system squeezes (churns) the food, mixing it with
fluids. It also releases enzymes to breakdown protein.
Stomach
7) Where in your body does most of the chemical digestion takes place?
Small Intestine
8) This part of your digestive system produces bile, a substance that breaks
down fat.
Liver
9) This organ in your digestive system stores bile and after eating, bile passes
from here through a tube to the small intestine.
Gallbladder
10) What organ in digestion produces enzymes that breakdown fats, proteins,
and starches?
Pancreas
11)The material entering this last section of the digestive system has water and
undigested food (fiber). Water is absorbed and the remaining material
passes through the rectum to the anus and out of the body.
Large Intestine
12) Name two other systems that work with the digestive system.
Circulatory, Exretory, Endocrine