Chapter 16 and Starting Final Review

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

• Mechanical Digestion
• Chemical Digestion

Bile is made by which digestive organ?

• Gallbladder
• Stomach
• Rectum
• Liver

Nutrients from digested food are absorbed in which digestive organ?

• Small Intestine
• Stomach
• Large Intestine
• Gallbladder

Which organ pushes food down to the stomach?

• Mouth
• Esophagus
• Rectum
• Large intestine

Which body system gets ride of solid waste?

• Excretory (Urinary)
• Digestive
• Circulatory
• Respiratory

As waste moves through the digestive system, the ______ absorbs water before storing waste in the rectum.

• Small intestine
• Stomach
• Esophagus
• Large intestine

Most chemical digestion takes place in which organ?

• Stomach
• Small intestine
• Rectum
• Esophagus

What comes first?

• Mouth
• stomach
• large intestine
• none

What does the stomach do?

• Nothing
• Adds digestive juices to the food
• Goes out to the rectum
• Barley any of these

Where digestion begins, teeth and tongue help break food into smaller pieces.

• mouth
• pharynx
• esophagus
• salivary glands