Digestive System Questions (Goes with Diagram sheet)

Name: _____________________________

 

Answer the following questions:

 

1. What are the two types of digestion?________________________________________

 

2. Where does chemical digestion occur? Name the 3 places. ____________________________

 

3. What is the roll of the gallbladder and why can we live without it? ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

4. What is chyme?_________________________________________________________

 

5. How does the pancreas help up digest the food? List two roles it plays in digestion. ________________________________________________________________________

 

6. What do large intestines do? ________________________________________________________________________

 

7. How does saliva begin digestion? ________________________________________________________________________

 

8. What is the name for the muscular contractions which push food through the digestive system? ________________

 

9. Where in the digestive system are soluble substances absorbed in the bloodstream? _____________________

 

10. What happens to the food that can’t be digested? _______________________________________________________________________

 

11. What gets produced in the liver and what is the function of it? ________________________________________________________________________

 

12. What are sphincter muscles? ________________________________________________________________________

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

For your own review, answer the following multiple choice questions:

 

  1. Our throat divides into two separate tubes: the esophagus and the windpipe. What prevents food from entering the windpipe?
    1. The uvula
    2. The tongue
    3. The trachea
    4. The epiglottis

 

  1. What happens when food reaches the stomach?
    1. Nothing.
    2. The food moves quickly into the small intestine.
    3. Juices mixe the food and the stomach muscles squeeze it.
    4. The food is completely digested and absorbed.

 

  1. How does digested food finally reach the bloodstream?
    1. It passes through the esophagus into the blood
    2. It is absorbed in the blood through blood vessels
    3. It is absorbed in the blood through the walls of the lungs
    4. It passes from the small intestine to the large intestine and then into the blood.

 

  1. The usable materials in the digestive system are sent to the body’s cells as food. What happens to the unusable materials?
    1. Goes to the pancreas to await disposal
    2. Goes to the right atrium to await disposal
    3. Goes to the large intestine to await disposal
    4. Goes to the small intestine to await disposal

 

True/ False Questions

 

  1. Your stomach is located right behind your belly button. True or False

 

  1. Everything we eat is completely digested and used by our bodies. True or False

 

  1. Your small intestine is approximately 700 cms long. True or False

 

  1. The esophagus is a muscular tube that carries food from our mouth to our stomach. True or False