Digestive System Medical Terms

What might happen if your large intestine did not absorb water from chyme?

• You couldn't digest food.

• You wouldn't be able to go to the bathroom.

• You would become dehydrated.

• Solid waste would not be able to move throughout the digestive system

Chewing is an example of what type of digestion?

• Dental

• Fragmentary

• Chemical

• Mechanical

Place the following events in sequence: Food enters your large intestines

Food enters your small intestines

Food enters your esophagus

• A, B, C

• C, B, A

• C, A, B

• B, A, C

Hydrochloric acid is a caustic chemical that can burn your skin- and yet it exists in your stomach. How can this be?

• Your small intestines absorb all the hydrochloric acid

• The food in your stomach absorbs all the acid

• Your stomach lining protects you against burns

• The hydrochloric acid in your stomach is different from the hydrochloric acid you would find in a chemistry lab

Tags

NGSS.MS-PS1-2

What tube moves food from the back of your throat to the stomach?

• Epiglottis

• Pharynx

• Esophagus

What does the digestive system do?

• Pumps blood throughout the body

• Helps you breathe

• Breaks down and handles food

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

When they reach the stomach, mashed-up food particles mix with:

• Mucus

• Gastric Juices

• Water

Your food can spend up to this long in the small intestine:

• 4 minutes

• 4 hours

• 4 months

The digestive process starts in the:

• Mouth

• Stomach

• Liver

Which organ churns food and uses acid and enzymes to break down food?

• stomach

• esophagus

• mouth

• epiglottis