Digestive System

The chewing and grinding of food into smaller pieces is an example of...

• Mechanical Digestion
• Chemical Digestion

The PARTS of the small intestine that helps absorb digested food are called__________.

• stomach

• villi

The chemical used to digest food are called?

• enzyme

• saliva

Enzymes (chemicals) in your saliva help break down food while chewing.  This is...

• Mechanical digestion
• Chemical digestion

Which organ churns food and uses acid and enzymes to break down food?

• stomach

• esophagus

• mouth

• epiglottis

What are 2 types of digestion?

• comotive digestion&chemical digestion 
• mechanical digestion & chemical digestion 
• forceful digestion & comotive digestion
• chemical digestion & motor digestion 

Why do you have two different structures of teeth

• you need teeth to slice and teeth to grind

• your teeth were made that way

• you don't have two different structures

Which of the following is the function of the epiglottis

• It is the tube that connects the mouth to stomach

• it is a flap of cartilage that keeps food out of the lungs

• it is how the stomach connects to the small intestine

• I have no idea

Food travels down the esophogus to the_______.

• Gull bladder

• Mouth

• Stomach

• Small intestine

What is the function of the teeth and tongue?

• chemical digestion

• break down food

• mechanical digestion

• they only chew food