- 1. If you wanted to relieve an acidy stomach, you'd want a liquid with a pH at which number.
A) 1
B) 6
C) 2
D) 7
E) 9
- 2. What is a small tear or hole in the lining of your stomach or small intestine called?
A) Villi
B) Appendix
C) Ulcer
D) Peristalsis
- 3. What finger like folds help the stomach have a greaters surface
A) Ulcers
B) Villi
C) Peristalsis
D) Smallpox
- 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) Anus
D) Appendix
- 5. What happens if too little water is pullled out of partially digested food in your large intestine?
A) Diarrhea
B) Appendicitis
C) Peristalsis
D) Constipation
- 6. What is the wavelike motion of muscles that moves food through the digestive system?
A) Peristalsis
B) Ulcers
C) Appendicitis
D) Constipation
- 7. What type of muscle tissue is in your digestive system?
A) Ulcerated
B) Smooth
C) Heart
D) Striated
- 8. In what part of the digestive system are most nutrients absorbed?
A) Large Intestine
B) Small Intestine
C) Stomach
D) Esophagus
E) Anus
- 9. How do the nutrients in food enter your bloodstream to get to the rest of your body?
A) Stomach Acid
B) Saliva
C) Capillaries
D) Appendix
- 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) 40 ft.
D) 18 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) sphincter
C) esophagus
D) rectum
- 17. What is the name of the flap that keeps food from going through your windpipe?
A) appendix
B) epiglottis
C) uvula
D) esophagus
E) salivary gland
- 18. In what part of the digestive system is waste stored right before it leaves the body?
A) rectum
B) small intestine
C) stomach
D) esophagus
- 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) Reverse peristalsis
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) Rectum
B) Small Intestine
C) Appendix
D) Large intestine
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) 12
B) 1
C) 4
D) 10
E) 7
- 23. If a person got a piece of food in their windpipe (trachea), what did not work properly?
A) Stomach
B) Small Intestine
C) Esophagus
D) Epiglottis
E) Teeth
- 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 a blocked intestine
B) constipated
C) have appendicitis
D) have a clogged rectum
E) dehydrated
- 31. Heartburn affects this digestive organ the most.
A) Large Intestine
B) Rectum
C) Esophagus
D) Small Intestine
- 32. If your stomach could not digest lactase properly - what type of food should you avoid.
A) Spicy food
B) Meat
C) Alcohol
D) Milk or Dairy
- 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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