Understand Digestive Process 7.02

The main function of the esophagus is to:

• break down roughage into amino acids

• chew feed into smaller particles

• connect the mouth to the stomach.

• produce bile.

What part of the nonruminant digestive system receives, churns, and mixes the feed and adds gastric juice to help in the digestive process?

• cecum

• large intestine

• small intestine

• stomach

The part of the poultry digestive system where both feces and urine pass out of the body is the:

• crop

• gizzard

• small intestine

• vent

When one looks at the digestive system of a mature cow and inspects the stomach, the compartment that appears to be much larger than the other compartments is the:

• abomasum

• omasum

• pancreas

• rumen

To help it function properly, a chicken gizzard usually contains:

• eggs

• grit and gravel

• metal objects

• villi

When ruminants eat, the liquid part of their feed goes into the:

• abomasum

• cecum

• reticulum

• rumen

The two parts that make up about 85% of the four-part ruminant stomach are the:

• abomasum and omasum

• cecum and liver

• reticulum and rumen

• small and large intestines.

The poultry digestive system has several special parts because poultry have no:

• liver

• small intestine

• teeth

• tongue

The digestive system begins at the mouth where food:

• absorbs into the animals's body

• enters the animal's body

• is stored for later use

• leaves the body as feces

When the digestive system of a hog is observed, the dark brown organ beneath the stomach is the:

• esophagus

• liver

• rumen

• small intestine