Digestive System Test

What is muscular tube that moves food from the mouth to the stomach?

• Uvula

• Esophagus

• Palate

• Salivary glands

What is the last section of the digestive system, where water is absorbed from food and the remaining material is eliminated from the body?

• Large Intestine

• Small Intestine

• Appendix

• Pharynx

The __________ is where digestion begins where muscles mechanically chop of the food and chemicals that dampen the food into a bolus.

• Stomach

• Small Inestine

• Mouth

• Liver

What is the name of the projection coming off of the large intestine?

• Appendix

• small intestine

• Colon

This organ sends important digestive juices to the intestines, where they help break down food into chemicals like glucose (sugar). Steve Jobs of APPLE died from cancer of this organ.

• pancreas

• large intestines

• small intestines

• stomach

Food passes through this organ (20-feet). It absorbs nutrients into the blood stream.

• pancreas

• small intestine

• stomach

• liver

Small glands in the mouth that form saliva (spit)

• stomach

• gall bladder

• salivary glands

• small intestine

Small, green organ stores and concentrates bile made in liver

• stomach

• acid

• laxatives

• gall bladder

The heart is a part of the digestive system

• True

• False

What is the esophagus?

• A tube that directs food to the stomach

• an airway

• a tube that leads to your lungs