Digestive and Circulatory Systems

What Is Digestion?

• The process of circulating blood
• To process of breaking down food  into smaller particles that can be absorbed
• The process of enzymes breaking down nutrients

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What Is Mechanical Digestion?

• The process of breaking down food into smaller food particles
• The process of breaking down food through chemical reactions
• The process of making feces

What Is Chemical Digestion?

• The process of breaking down food into energy
• The process of breaking down food into smaller food particles to make it easier to digest
• The process of breakings down food through chemical reactions

What Is The Function Of The Liver?

• Stores Bile
• Produces Bile
• Produces saliva

What Is The Function Of The Pancreas?

• Produces digestive enzymes
• Produces insulin
• Produces pancreatic juices
• All other answers are correct

What Is The Function Of The Small Intestine?

• To absorb 90% of the nutrients and minerals from the chyme
• To absorb 10% of the nutrients and minerals from the chyme
• To allow bacterial digestion
• To produce bile

What Is Peristalsis?

• The end of the stomach
• The wave like motion that moves food down the esophagus
• The enzyme that breaks down protein and starch
• Peristalsis is the place where the feces are stored

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Flap of tissue that covers the opening to the windpipe during swallowing

• Stomach
• Esophagus
• Pancreas
• Epiglottis

Muscular tube that connects the mouth to the stomach

• Epiglottis
• Peristalsis
• Stomach
• Esophagus

The highlighted organ is the

• pancreas
• small intestine
• large intestine
• liver