- 1. If you wanted to relieve an acidy stomach, you'd want a liquid with a pH at which number.
A) 7
B) 2
C) 9
D) 1
E) 6
- 2. What is a small tear or hole in the lining of your stomach or small intestine called?
A) Appendix
B) Ulcer
C) Villi
D) Peristalsis
- 3. What finger like folds help the stomach have a greaters surface
A) Villi
B) Smallpox
C) Ulcers
D) Peristalsis
- 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) Appendix
C) Villi
D) Anus
- 5. What happens if too little water is pullled out of partially digested food in your large intestine?
A) Constipation
B) Diarrhea
C) Peristalsis
D) Appendicitis
- 6. What is the wavelike motion of muscles that moves food through the digestive system?
A) Constipation
B) Ulcers
C) Appendicitis
D) Peristalsis
- 7. What type of muscle tissue is in your digestive system?
A) Heart
B) Smooth
C) Striated
D) Ulcerated
- 8. In what part of the digestive system are most nutrients absorbed?
A) Large Intestine
B) Anus
C) Esophagus
D) Stomach
E) Small Intestine
- 9. How do the nutrients in food enter your bloodstream to get to the rest of your body?
A) Stomach Acid
B) Appendix
C) Capillaries
D) Saliva
- 10. What would you do to relieve constipation?
- 11. Approxiately how long are the intestines in an adult?
A) 15 ft.
B) 22 ft.
C) 40 ft.
D) 18 ft.
E) 50 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) sphincter
B) rectum
C) esophagus
D) trachea
- 17. What is the name of the flap that keeps food from going through your windpipe?
A) appendix
B) uvula
C) esophagus
D) salivary gland
E) epiglottis
- 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) Reverse peristalsis
B) Overproduction of stomach acid
C) Epiglottal Fluttering
D) Too much water being pulled from the large intestine
- 21. What is the name of the organ that we don't really use in our digestive system?
A) Large intestine
B) Appendix
C) Small Intestine
D) Rectum
E) Epiglottis
- 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) 4
B) 12
C) 10
D) 1
E) 7
- 23. If a person got a piece of food in their windpipe (trachea), what did not work properly?
A) Esophagus
B) Epiglottis
C) Small Intestine
D) Stomach
E) Teeth
- 24. Which of these organs does not produce chemicals that aid in digestion?
A) Appendix
B) Liver
C) Gall Bladder
D) Pancreas
- 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) dehydrated
B) have a blocked intestine
C) have a clogged rectum
D) constipated
E) have appendicitis
- 31. Heartburn affects this digestive organ the most.
A) Large Intestine
B) Rectum
C) Small Intestine
D) Esophagus
- 32. If your stomach could not digest lactase properly - what type of food should you avoid.
A) Spicy food
B) Alcohol
C) Milk or Dairy
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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