Nutrition and Digestion

______________________: Taking in food.

• Ingestion

• Digestion

• Absorption

• Elimination

______________________: Process of changing food into simple forms that can be absorbed by the animal

• Ingestion

• Digestion

• Absorption

• Elimination

What is the correct order of the digestive process?

• Digestion, Absorption, Ingestion, Egestion

• Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, Egestion

• Absorption, Digestion, Egestion, Ingestion

• Egestion, Digestion, Absorption, Ingestion

Digestive enzymes require these two conditions to function

• correct temperature and salinity

• correct salinity and humidity

• correct temperature and pH

• correct salinity and pH

This enzyme breaks down carbohydrates

• trypsin

• pepsin

• lipase

• amylase

These teeth are used for tearing

• canines

• molars

• incisors

Saliva contains this enzyme

• amylase

• pepsin

• trypsin

• lipase

Food broken up by teeth, lubricated by saliva and formed into a ball by the tongue is called a(n):

• Chyme

• Panis

• Lesion

• Bolus

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

This wave like muscle contraction forces food down the esophagus

• sinusoidal

• transverse

• peristalsis

• sigmoid

Exit from the stomach is regulated by the:

• pyloric sphincter

• cardiac sphincter

• pupillary sphincter

• Ileocecal sphincter