Digestive System Exam

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

• Mechanical Digestion
• Chemical Digestion

What is one secondary (helper) organ of the digestive system?

• Small Intestine
• Esophagus
• Gallbladder
• Stomach

Bile is made by which digestive organ?

• Gallbladder
• Stomach
• Rectum
• Liver

Nutrients from digested food are absorbed in which digestive organ?

• Small Intestine
• Stomach
• Large Intestine
• Gallbladder

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

• stomach
• liver
• gall bladder
• pancreas

stores excess bile made by the liver.

• large intestines
• small intestines
• pancreas
• gall bladder

digest food in the first part and then absorbs nutrients in the second and third part.  

• large intestines
• small intestines
• liver
• appendix

a small sac found near the large intestines, it doesn't help with digestion.

• appendix
• pancreas
• gall bladder
• small intestines

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

• liver
• epiglottis
• large intestines
• rectum

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

• liver
• epiglottis
• large intestines
• rectum