Digestive System
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| Name three organs that help with digestion but don't actually move food through them. | Liver, Pancreas and Gallbladder
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| Where does digestion begin ? | Begins in the mouth
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| What helps with mechanical digestion in the mouth? | Teeth and tongue
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| What helps with chemical digestion in the mouth? | Saliva
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| What helps with mechanical digestion in the stomach? | Churning of stomach caused by smooth muscles lining stomach - called peristalsis
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| What helps with chemical digestion in the stomach? | Hydrochloric acid and other digestive juices (bile and pancreatic juice) breaking down the food into a usable form.
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| What organ recycles the water from the digested food? | Large Intestines
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| Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream through which organ? | Small intestines
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| What are the finger-like projections in the small intestines that draw out the nutrients? | Villi
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| What is the flap of tissue that keeps food from going down the trachea? | Epiglottis
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| Which is the longest organ of the digestive system? | Small intestines
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| Why are the large intestines called "large"? | Because they have a greater diameter than the small intestines - (they're bigger around)
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| Common name for the food tube? | Esophagus
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| When smooth muscles contract and push food through your digestive tract, this is called? | Peristalsis
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| The liver, pancreas and gallbladder help with which type of digestion? | Chemical Digestion
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| The process of simply breaking down food into smaller pieces is called | Mechanical digestion
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| The process of chemically changing food into a useable form that the body can use is | Chemical digestion
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| Where does food go in the digestive tract after it leaves the mouth? | Esophagus
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| Where does food go in the digestive tract after it leaves the esophagus? | Stomach
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| Where does food go in the digestive tract after it leaves the stomach? | Small intestine
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| Where does food go in the digestive tract after it leaves the small intestine? | Large intestine
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| What is the "holding tank" of the large intestines? | Rectum
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| What is the opening through which feces exits body? | Anus
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| Each villi is connected to what? What is the purpose of this? | Each villi is connected to a capillary which puts the glucose into the bloodstream that will then travel to feed the cells.
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| What is the nutrient that all food is broken down into that feeds the cells? | Glucose
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