Digestive and Urinary Systems Test

The main function of the human digestive system is 

• digestion and absorption.

• removes waste from your blood in the form of urine

• carries oxygen, nutrients, and hormones to cells, and removes waste products, like carbon dioxide.

• receiving information about the environment around us (sensation) and generating responses to that information (motor responses).

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Why is the esophagus muscular?

• To break the food into even smaller pieces

• To produce enzymes to digest food

• To push food from the mouth into the stomach

• To move the food back and forth in two directions

Amylase breaks down what macronutrient?

• carbohydrates

• fats

• minerals

• proteins

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

The mouth is the 1st site for _____________ digestion

• carbohydrate

• fats

• minerals

• proteins

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This organ breaks down protein

• large intestine

• mouth

• small intestine

• stomach

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Type of digestion that means chewing?

• chemical

• mechanical

• peristalsis

• saliva

How does food move through your digestive system?

• gravity

• weight of food pushing down

• muscular movements

• electromagnetic force

When many large carbohydrates are chemically digested they are broken into many smaller 

• amino acids

• enzymes

• proteins

• simple sugars

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protein will be broken down into

• amino acids

• glucose

• glycerol and fatty acids

• polypeptide

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The structure that actually produces urine in the process of removing waste and excess substances from the blood.

• bowman's capsule

• kidneys

• nephrons

• ureters