- 1. If you wanted to relieve an acidy stomach, you'd want a liquid with a pH at which number.
A) 7
B) 1
C) 9
D) 2
E) 6
- 2. What is a small tear or hole in the lining of your stomach or small intestine called?
A) Peristalsis
B) Villi
C) Appendix
D) Ulcer
- 3. What finger like folds help the stomach have a greaters surface
A) Villi
B) Smallpox
C) Peristalsis
D) Ulcers
- 4. Is like an on/off switch that opens and closes to let food into one part of the digestive system from another
A) Spinchter
B) Villi
C) Appendix
D) Anus
- 5. What happens if too little water is pullled out of partially digested food in your large intestine?
A) Appendicitis
B) Constipation
C) Diarrhea
D) Peristalsis
- 6. What is the wavelike motion of muscles that moves food through the digestive system?
A) Ulcers
B) Peristalsis
C) Constipation
D) Appendicitis
- 7. What type of muscle tissue is in your digestive system?
A) Smooth
B) Striated
C) Ulcerated
D) Heart
- 8. In what part of the digestive system are most nutrients absorbed?
A) Stomach
B) Anus
C) Large Intestine
D) Esophagus
E) Small Intestine
- 9. How do the nutrients in food enter your bloodstream to get to the rest of your body?
A) Appendix
B) Stomach Acid
C) Saliva
D) Capillaries
- 10. What would you do to relieve constipation?
- 11. Approxiately how long are the intestines in an adult?
A) 15 ft.
B) 50 ft.
C) 18 ft.
D) 40 ft.
E) 22 ft.
- 13. You have to have surgery to remove an obstruction from your intestine. What might you have to have for the rest of your life?
- 14. Why aren't you able to eat six saltine crackers in one minute?
- 15. Give a step by step description of how food goes through the digestive system and what happens to it along the way. Write it like this: Step 1..... Step 2..... Step 3......
- 16. What is the name of the tube through which food passes on the way to the stomach?
A) trachea
B) rectum
C) esophagus
D) sphincter
- 17. What is the name of the flap that keeps food from going through your windpipe?
A) uvula
B) epiglottis
C) esophagus
D) salivary gland
E) appendix
- 18. In what part of the digestive system is waste stored right before it leaves the body?
A) rectum
B) esophagus
C) stomach
D) small intestine
- 19. Describe the role of the teeth and tongue in digestion.
- 20. What causes you to throw up?
A) Overproduction of stomach acid
B) Epiglottal Fluttering
C) Too much water being pulled from the large intestine
D) Reverse peristalsis
- 21. What is the name of the organ that we don't really use in our digestive system?
A) Epiglottis
B) Small Intestine
C) Rectum
D) Appendix
E) Large intestine
- 22. If we tested the pH of medium level hot sauce, it would most likely be this? (Hint: Think about the pH of stomach acid and how hot sauce might compare)
A) 10
B) 4
C) 12
D) 7
E) 1
- 23. If a person got a piece of food in their windpipe (trachea), what did not work properly?
A) Epiglottis
B) Teeth
C) Esophagus
D) Stomach
E) Small Intestine
- 24. Which of these organs does not produce chemicals that aid in digestion?
A) Liver
B) Pancreas
C) Appendix
D) Gall Bladder
- 25. If you put one saltine in water, one in milk of magnesia, and one in orange juice - Which do you think would break down the fastest? Explain why.
- 26. Why doesn't stomach acid burn through the tissues in your digestive system?
- 27. Things float in space because there is not gravity. How are astronauts able to eat and not have food float up their digestive tubes when they eat?
- 28. True or False: Bases (the opposite of acids) are often used as cleaning products.
A) True
B) False
- 29. True or False: Bases (the opposite of acids) are never harmful to humans
A) False
B) True
- 30. If you had diarrhea, you might also be...
A) have a blocked intestine
B) have a clogged rectum
C) dehydrated
D) have appendicitis
E) constipated
- 31. Heartburn affects this digestive organ the most.
A) Small Intestine
B) Rectum
C) Esophagus
D) Large Intestine
- 32. If your stomach could not digest lactase properly - what type of food should you avoid.
A) Milk or Dairy
B) Spicy food
C) Alcohol
D) Meat
- 33. Why don't all farts smell the same? Be specific
- 34. How are the small and large intestines similar (what do they both do)? Also describe how they are different?
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