Biomedical - Digestive System

What does the digestive System do?

• Breaks down food and gives the nutrient to the body
• Makes your bones break
• helps humans to breath

What is the major function of the esophagus?

• To carry substances to your stomach
• To squeeze and contract in order to process your food and provide energy for the rest of your body system
• To store food while it is being mixed with stomach enzymes
• To help to further digest food coming from the stomach. It absorbs nutrients (vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, fats, proteins) and water from food so they can be used by the body.

What is the major function of the stomach?

• To store food while it is being mixed with stomach enzymes.
• To store food while it slowly moves through the trachea.
• To import substances.
• To export substances.

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What is the major function of the small intestine?

• To help further digest food coming from the stomach.
• To mix the food coming from your stomach enzymes in order to help it move through your stomach faster.
• All of the above.
• To slither like a snake and make you extremely uncomfortable.

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What is the major function of the large intestine?

• To uncomfortably tangle with the small intestine in order to share nutrients.
• To absorb water and salts and dispose of any waste substances remaining.
• Please tell me you get this one right the answer is obvious.
• Are you even paying attention?

An organ of the digestive system where the breaking down of food happens with very strong acid.

• mouth
• Stomach
• gullet
• small intestine

Absorbs water from digested food and forms feces.

• small intestine
• stomach
• large intestine
• mouth

Digestion begins here, where food is broken into smaller pieces before entering the gullet.

• stomach
• large intestine
• mouth

What is the final step of digestion?

• ingestion
• digestion
• absorption
• elimination

What helps with chewing to break down food?

• milk
• water
• saliva
• nothing