Animal Nutrition / The Digestive System

Question 1

Nutrition

Answer 1

The way an organism obtains and uses its food

Question 2

Autotroph

Answer 2

Makes its own food

Question 3

Heterotroph

Answer 3

Cannot make its own food

Question 4

Herbivore

Answer 4

Animals that feed on plants only (e.g rabbit)

Question 5

Carnivore

Answer 5

Animals that feed on other animals only (e.g fox)

Question 6

Omnivores

Answer 6

Animals that feed on both plants and animals (e.g badger or human)

Question 7

Need for digestion

Answer 7

To break down large food particles until they are small enough to pass into body cells/bloodstream

Question 8

Digestion definition

Answer 8

They physical and chemical breakdown of food into soluble particles and small enough to pass into body cells/bloodstream

Question 9

Ingestion

Answer 9

Taking in food into the body

Question 10

Digestion

Answer 10

Food is physically and chemically broken down into smaller soluble pieces

Question 11

Absorption

Answer 11

Where the digested nutrients are passed/transferred into the bloodstream

Question 12

Egestion

Answer 12

Removal of unabsorbed material as feces

Question 13

Mechanical Digestion

Answer 13

The physical breakdown of food

Question 14

Chemical Digestion

Answer 14

The breakdown of food using acids and enzymes

Question 15

Alimentary Canal

Answer 15

The organs that food passes through while being digested

Question 16

Peristalsis

Answer 16

Muscular contractions that force food along the alimentary canal

Question 17

Amylase

Answer 17

An enzyme that converts starch -> maltose