Digestive System

What is the digestive system?

• A system to take out the bad stuff that's in your body

• A system where a certain group of organs work together to convert food into energy to feed the body

• A system where certain organs in the body digest the food you eat

• A system that the organs in the stomach make food for the body to digest.

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Where does the digestive system start?

• The liver

• The throat

• The stomach

• The mouth

The process by which the body breaks down food so that it can be used for energy.

• composition
• digestion
• deposition
• absorption

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A fluid in the mouth that helps digest food.

• pepsin
• pepsi
• saliva
• salty

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• esophagus
• liver
• stomach
• pancreas

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What is the definition for digestion?

• Breaking down food into smaller nutrients
• Getting rid of waste products
• Getting food into our bodies
• Getting nutrients into our bloodstream, so that our cells can use them

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If you wanted to find the glands that produce salivary amylase, where would you look?

• In your mouth

• In your throat

• In your intestines

• In your stomach

Place the following events in sequence: A) Food enters your large intestines

B) Food enters your small intestines

C) Food enters your esophagus

• A, B, C

• C, B, A

• C, A, B

• B, A, C

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• stomach
• pancreas
• large intestine
• small intestine

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What are the functions of the Digestive system?

• Food digestion

• Provides storage

• Removal of undigested materials

• Absorption of digested food

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