Digestive System: Amoeba Sisters

What are the four major tasks of the digestive system?

• Congestion, Progestion, Ingestion, Elimination

• Ingestion, Procrastination, Absorption, Face the Nation.

• Ingestion, Digestion, Absorption, Elimination.

What is digestion?

• When you swallow the food

• When food is broken down into molecular building blocks

• When water is absorbed

What is absorption?

• When your body absorbs the nutrients

• When you swallow the food

• When you poop out the waste

What do your teeth do?

• Chemical disgestion

• Mechanical digestion

What does the epiglottis do?

• Helps you swallow

• Blocks off your esophagus when you swallow

• Blocks off your trachea(windpipe) when you swallow

What does Peristalsis do?

• Moves the food down the esophagus

• Blocks off your trachea when you swallow

• Mechanically breaks down the food in your mouth

What kind of digestion happens in the stomach?

• only Mechanical Digestion

• only Chemical digestion

• Both chemical and mechanical digestion

Where does your food go when it leaves the stomach?

• Large intestine

• Colon

• Esophagus

• Small intestine

What gets broken down and digested in the small intestine?

• Proteins and carbs

• Proteins, carbs, lipids, nucleic acids

Where does almost all absorption occur?

• Small intestine

• Large intestine

• Stomach