Digestive System review

The chewing and grinding of food into smaller pieces is an example of _______________ and is called ____________

• Mechanical Digestion, mastication

• Chemical Digestion, mastication

• mechanical digestion, deglutition

• chemical digestion, deglutition

Bile is made by which digestive organ?

• Gallbladder
• Stomach
• Rectum
• Liver

Most nutrients from digested food are absorbed in which digestive organ?

• Small Intestine

• Stomach

• Large Intestine

• Gallbladder

Most chemical digestion takes place in which organ?

• Stomach
• Small intestine
• Rectum
• Esophagus

Small muscular pouch responsible for storing bile

• pancreas
• mechanical
• amylase
• gallbladder

Another name for the throat, food passes through here during deglutition.

• esophagus

• pharynx

• stomach

• 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

helps neutralize stomach acid with buffers & produces digestive enzymes.

• pancreas

• stomach

• gall bladder

• appendix

absorbs water from waste, good bacteria live here and help maintain good health. (dryer of digestive system).

• liver
• epiglottis
• large intestines
• rectum