Digestive System

The chewing and grinding of food into smaller pieces is an example of...

• Mechanical Digestion
• Chemical Digestion

Bile is made by which digestive organ?

• Gallbladder
• Stomach
• Rectum
• Liver

Which digestive organ makes digestive juices to help the small intestine absorb nutrients?

• Liver
• Gallbladder
• Pancreas
• Esophagus

Nutrients from digested food are absorbed in which digestive organ?

• Small Intestine
• Stomach
• Large Intestine
• Gallbladder

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

As waste moves through the digestive system, the ______ absorbs water before storing waste in the rectum.

• Small intestine
• Stomach
• Esophagus
• Large intestine

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-3

Bile is stored in which secondary digestive organ?

• Stomach
• Liver
• Gallbladder
• Pancreas

Enzymes (chemicals) in your saliva help break down food while chewing. This is an example of

• Mechanical digestion

• Chemical digestion

Where digestion begins, teeth and tongue help break food into smaller pieces.

• mouth

• pharynx

• esophagus

• salivary glands

Small flap that covers the trachea when swallowing to prevent food from entering lungs.

• epiglottis

• stomach

• esophagus

• salivary glands

Churns and mixes food, produces acid to kill pathogens & pepsin to digest proteins.

• stomach
• liver
• gall bladder
• pancreas