- 1. If you wanted to relieve an acidy stomach, you'd want a liquid with a pH at which number.
A) 2
B) 7
C) 1
D) 9
E) 6
- 2. What is a small tear or hole in the lining of your stomach or small intestine called?
A) Appendix
B) Villi
C) Peristalsis
D) Ulcer
- 3. What finger like folds help the stomach have a greaters surface
A) Peristalsis
B) Smallpox
C) Ulcers
D) Villi
- 4. Is like an on/off switch that opens and closes to let food into one part of the digestive system from another
A) Villi
B) Anus
C) Spinchter
D) Appendix
- 5. What happens if too little water is pullled out of partially digested food in your large intestine?
A) Constipation
B) Diarrhea
C) Appendicitis
D) Peristalsis
- 6. What is the wavelike motion of muscles that moves food through the digestive system?
A) Constipation
B) Peristalsis
C) Appendicitis
D) Ulcers
- 7. What type of muscle tissue is in your digestive system?
A) Striated
B) Heart
C) Smooth
D) Ulcerated
- 8. In what part of the digestive system are most nutrients absorbed?
A) Anus
B) Small Intestine
C) Stomach
D) Large Intestine
E) Esophagus
- 9. How do the nutrients in food enter your bloodstream to get to the rest of your body?
A) Capillaries
B) Stomach Acid
C) Appendix
D) Saliva
- 10. What would you do to relieve constipation?
- 11. Approxiately how long are the intestines in an adult?
A) 22 ft.
B) 40 ft.
C) 15 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) trachea
C) esophagus
D) rectum
- 17. What is the name of the flap that keeps food from going through your windpipe?
A) salivary gland
B) epiglottis
C) appendix
D) uvula
E) esophagus
- 18. In what part of the digestive system is waste stored right before it leaves the body?
A) small intestine
B) stomach
C) esophagus
D) rectum
- 19. Describe the role of the teeth and tongue in digestion.
- 20. What causes you to throw up?
A) Too much water being pulled from the large intestine
B) Epiglottal Fluttering
C) Reverse peristalsis
D) Overproduction of stomach acid
- 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) 7
B) 10
C) 1
D) 12
E) 4
- 23. If a person got a piece of food in their windpipe (trachea), what did not work properly?
A) Epiglottis
B) Esophagus
C) Teeth
D) Small Intestine
E) Stomach
- 24. Which of these organs does not produce chemicals that aid in digestion?
A) Liver
B) Gall Bladder
C) Pancreas
D) Appendix
- 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) False
B) True
- 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 appendicitis
B) have a clogged rectum
C) dehydrated
D) constipated
E) have a blocked intestine
- 31. Heartburn affects this digestive organ the most.
A) Small Intestine
B) Large Intestine
C) Rectum
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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