DIGESTION IN RUMINANTS

These are examples of ruminants:

• pigs, horses, humans and chickens

• sheep, goats, cattle, deer, giraffes

• pigs, sheep, cattle, chickens

• pigs, hippos, llamas

Ruminants have ___ complex stomach stuctures

• 1

• 2

• 3

• 4

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NGSS.MS-LS4-2

The ruminant structures are :

• espohgus , mouth, teeth and cecum

• rumen, reticulum, omasum and abomasum

• stomach, small intestine large intestine

What is the name of the first stomach in a ruminant animal?

• Pancreas

• Rumen

• Reticulum

• Omasum

What are ruminants?

• Single celled animals

• Animals who eat other animals

• Grass eating animals

• Two feeted animals

What is rumination?

• Chewing of food

• Ingestion of food

• Chewing of cud

• All of the above

______ takes in food by the use of pseudopodia.

• Goat

• Tiger

• Amoeba

• Human

Amoeba digests its food in the ____.

• Food vacuole

• Stomach

• Liver

• Intestine

Mark ‘True’ if the statement is true and ‘False’ if it is false

The ruminants bring back swallowed grass into their mouth and chew it for some time.

• True

• False

Grass is rich in ________ a special kind of carbohydrate which can only be digested by ruminants.

• Glucose

• Cellulose

• Sucrose

• Fructose