Digestion

Question 1

Ingestion/eating

Answer 1

Food is taken in by the body

Question 2

Digestion

Answer 2

Food is broken down

Question 3

Absorbation

Answer 3

Digested food passes into the bloodstream

Question 4

Assimilation

Answer 4

Using food in the cells of the body

Question 5

Elimination

Answer 5

Getting rid of undigested food

Question 6

Enzymes

Answer 6

Chemicals that speed up reactions without being used up in the reaction. Enzymes act on a substrate and breaks it down into a product example: substrate = starch, enzyme = amylase (saliva), product = maltose (sugar)

Question 7

Physical digestion

Answer 7

It happens in the mouth with teeth and in the stomach with churning

Question 8

Mouth

Answer 8

Physical and chemical digestion

Question 9

Oesophagus

Answer 9

Brings food from mouth to stomach

Question 10

Liver

Answer 10

Makes bile

Question 11

Stomach

Answer 11

Physical and chemical digestion

Question 12

Pancreas

Answer 12

Makes digestive juices

Question 13

Small intestine

Answer 13

Most chemical digestion

Question 14

Large intestine

Answer 14

Water reabsorption

Question 15

Rectum

Answer 15

Stores undigested food

Question 16

Anus

Answer 16

Undigested food passes out

Question 17

Gall bladder

Answer 17

Storage of bile

Question 18

Incisor (type of tooth)

Answer 18

At the front of the mouth
4 upper and 4 lower
Used for biting and cutting food

Question 19

Canine (type of tooth)

Answer 19

One at either side of the incisors
2 upper and 2 lower
Grasp and tear food

Question 20

Pre-molar

Answer 20

3 at either side of the canine
6 upper and 6 lower
Grind and crush food

Question 21

Molars

Answer 21

2 at either side of the premolars
4 upper 4 lower
Grind and crush food

Question 22

Herbivore

Answer 22

Only eats plants
Very large incisors
Large molars and pre molars to chew grass

Question 23

Carnivore

Answer 23

Only eAts meat
Large canine teeth

Question 24

Omnivore

Answer 24

Eats plants and meat
Need all of the different teeth