Amoeba Sisters - Digestion Quiz

The taking in of food to your mouth is called _______________

• Digestion

• Ingestion

• Excretion

• Indigestion

Biomolecules are broken down chemically with ___________.

• saliva and stomach acid

• chewing

• churning

• peristalsis

Digestion starts in the __________.

• stomach

• large intestine

• small intestine

• mouith

What part of your mouth breaks down food mechanically?

• saliva

• teeth

• taste buds

• epiglotis

What is the food called once it has mixed with saliva, chewed, and ready to swallow?

• spit

• chime

• bolus

• vomit

What is the flap called that closes when you swallow that prevents your food from going down your wind pipe (trachea)?

• peristalsis

• tonsils

• lungs

• epiglotis

How much liquid can your stomach hold?

• 2 liters

• 2 pints

• 2 gallons

• 2 teaspoons

What is the liquid mixture called that food turns into when it has been churned in your stomach with acid and is ready to enter your small intestine?

• barf

• chyme

• bolus

• epiglotis

What are the small structures that line your small intestine that absorb nutrients called?

• mucus lining

• vascules

• villi

• large intestine

What is the major role of the large intestine?

• excrete white blood cells

• remove bolus

• absorb water

• create acid