The stomach aka how to make all food look the same

Which one of the following is not a job of the stomach?

• To absorb your food

• To break down food into a liquid

• To push your food into other parts of your digestive system

• To store food

Acid is…

• A liquid that breaks down food into slime

• The creamy stuff that your stomach turns your food into

• Something that mixes your food

• A ring of muscle that lets food out of the stomach

To churn means…

• To be pushed past a ring of muscle

• To turn in to a liquid

• To mix something up

• To be inside the stomach

Chyme is…

• To mix something up

• A ring of muscle that lets food out of the stomach

• A liquid that breaks down food into slime

• The creamy stuff that your stomach turns your food into

The pyloric sphincter is…

• A ring of muscle that lets food out of the stomach

• A liquid that breaks down food into slime

• The creamy stuff that your stomach turns your food into

• Something that mixes your food

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Why does the article mention laundry detergents and dish soaps?

• To give an analogous example to breaking down food with different chemicals

• Chemicals from animal chime are use in their production

• Some of the chemicals in chime can be found in both of these

• The article does not mention any of these answers

The article says that ice cube can be bad for your stomach because…

• They lead to increased acidity, which breaks food down too much

• They decrease the effects of stomach acid, which leads to no food break down

• They force the stomach to overcorrect and raise the temperature too high

• They lower the temperature, which prevents some break down of food

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All whales eat tiny food that they don’t have to chew

• True

• False

The article alludes to the idea that your stomach could… when you die

• Stop digesting

• Continue to produce mucus

• Overproduce acid

• Digest itself

Why is acid important to the digestive process?

• It keeps the food in your stomach from breaking down and going bad

• It breaks chemically the food in your stomach for digestion

• It prepares your body to absorbs foods

• It prevents your body from absorbing food that will harm it by breaking down harmful molecules, like chime