Digestive System

Which organ system includes the esophagus, pancreas, and large intestine?

• digestive
• excretory
• integumentary
• lymphatic

Mouth to stomach to intestines.  What system helps the digestive system move food until it becomes waste?

• circulatory
• immune
• muscular
• skeletal

What is the organ where water is absorbed from the digested food and returned to the bloodstream?

• mouth
• small intestine 
• esophagus
• large intestine

Which organ is a secondary organ that stores bile?

• stomach
• gallbladder
• pancreas
• liver

Which organ does most of the chemical digestion of food and allows nutrients to be absorbed into the body?

• stomach
• esophagus
• small intestine
• liver

Digestion in animals begins in the ______.

• intestines
• mouth
• stomach
• throat

We think of our muscular system as the system that helps us move around.  It also functions on an internal level by helping food movement in the _____ and _____, both parts of the digestive system.

• stomach; liver
• stomach; pancreas
• stomach: gallbladder
• stomach; small intestines

What is the short tube that stores solid waste until it is eliminated from the body through the anus?

• rectum
• liver
• esophagus
• stomach

Which organ releases digestive enzymes into the small intestine?

• pancreas

• small intestine

• esophagus

• salivary glands

What organ is responsible for the majority of the absoption that occurs in the digestive system?

• large intestine

• small intestine

• stomach

• oral cavity