Digestive System

What is the definition for ingestion?

• Breaking down food into smaller nutrients
• Getting rid of waste products
• Getting food into our bodies
• Getting nutrients into our bloodstream, so that our cells can use them

What is the definition for digestion?

• Breaking down food into smaller nutrients
• Getting rid of waste products
• Getting food into our bodies
• Getting nutrients into our bloodstream, so that our cells can use them

What is the definition for absorption?

• Breaking down food into smaller nutrients
• Getting rid of waste products
• Getting food into our bodies
• Getting nutrients into our bloodstream, so that our cells can use them

What is the definition for elimination?

• Breaking down food into smaller nutrients
• Getting rid of waste products
• Getting food into our bodies
• Getting nutrients into our bloodstream, so that our cells can use them

Where does the digestion of starch begin?

• esophagus
• small intestine
• stomach
• mouth

The muscular tube that moves food from the mouth to the stomach?

• esophagus
• small intestine
• stomach
• mouth

Where are nutrients absorbed into the blood?

• esophagus
• small intestine
• stomach
• mouth

The organ where food is mashed and then broken down by acids?

• esophagus
• small intestine
• stomach
• mouth

Where extra water and minerals are absorbed through the cells of this organ ...

• liver
• small intestine
• stomach
• large intestine

Food broken down by physical processes is called

• mechanical digestion
• chemical digestion