Digestive and Excretory System Quiz

What is the main function of the Digestive System?

• Transportation of nutrients throughout the body

• Break down food to extract nutrients for cell use

• Bring oxygen into the body

• Deliver blood to the body

Where in the body does most digestion take place?

• Large intestine

• Liver

• Pancreas

• Small intestine

In the small intestine, bile ______ changes fat, and enzymes ______ change fat.

• Physically, chemically

• 1. Chemically, physically 

• Chemically, chemically

• Physically, physically

Which organ produces/makes a substance called bile?

• Liver

• Gallbladder

• Stomach

• Small intestine

Which organ's function is to churn and break down food particles which is also called chyme?

• Stomach

• Gallbladder

• Liver

• Small intestine

Which organ stores bile?

• Liver

• Gallbladder

• Stomach

• Small intestine

When bile breaks down food, what kind of change is this?

• Physical

• Chemical

When food is moving from the mouth, down the esophagus to the stomach, what process takes place?

• Churning

• Peristalsis

• Eating

• Digestion

When enzymes are introduced in your saliva and in your stomach, what kind of digestion occurs?

• physical/mechanical

• chemical

What process takes place in the large intestines?

• Most of digestion occurs here

• Water is absorbed and removed from undigested food

• Food is broken down and churned

• Enzymes are released to breakdown food