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Digestive System Review. Question # 1. Why do we need saliva? Helps to moisten food and make it easier to chew. Question # 2. What is peristalsis? Involuntary muscle contractions that helps move food through the digestive tract. Question # 3.
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Question # 1 • Why do we need saliva? • Helps to moisten food and make it easier to chew.
Question # 2 • What is peristalsis? • Involuntary muscle contractions that helps move food through the digestive tract.
Question # 3 • What are the 2 types of digestion that the stomach provides? • Chemical and Mechanical.
Question # 4 • What is mechanical digestion? • Breaking down food into smaller pieces.
Question # 5 • What is an accessory organ? • An organ that aids in digestion but food doesn’t pass through it.
Question # 6 • Name 2 accessory organs. • Liver, pancreas, gallbladder, salivary glands.
Question # 7 • What is the function of the small intestine? • Absorption of nutrients.
Question # 8 • In the small intestine, what helps in the absorption of the nutrients? • Villi
Question # 9 • What is pepsin? Where is it produced? • An enzyme that breaks down proteins and it’s produced in the stomach.
Question # 10 What is the name of this organ? The stomach
Question # 11 What is this organ? Small intestine
Question # 12 • What does the liver do? • Produces bile that helps to break down fats.
Question # 13 • What do the teeth do? • Do much of the mechanical work of digestion; break down food into smaller pieces so it can be swallowed.
Question # 14 • Where does food go after it leaves the large intestine? • Out the body through the rectum.
Question # 15 • What does the esophagus connect? • The mouth to the stomach.