digestion

Question 0

What does our bodies use as fuel to provide energy for work, play and growth?

Answer 0

Food

Question 1

What is the breaking down of food into forms that our body can use?

Answer 1

Digestion

Question 2

What is responsible for converting the food we eat into energy for our bodies to use?

Answer 2

Digestive system

Question 3

How does digestion begin?

Answer 3

When we put food in our mouth and begin to chew.

Question 4

What helps break the food apart in your mouth?

Answer 4

Teeth

Question 5

What helps to soften the food in your mouth

Answer 5

Saliva

Question 6

What helps to push the food into your throat helping you when you’re ready to swallow

Answer 6

Your tongue

Question 7

When we swallow the food goes into a tube called the

Answer 7

Esophagus

Question 8

This is a muscular tube that is connected to the stomach

Answer 8

The esophagus

Question 9

What surrounds the esophagus to help squeeze and push food into the stomach

Answer 9

Muscles

Question 10

This is a sack that receives the food from your Esophagus

Answer 10

Stomach

Question 11

What does the stomach make that helps break our food down into the thick liquid or paste

Answer 11

Digestive juices acids and enzymes

Question 12

What is the thick liquid or paste called that is in your stomach that food is broken down into

Answer 12

Chyme

Question 13

This is a muscular organ that mixes the food with digestive juices

Answer 13

The stomach

Question 14

After leaving the stomach the food enters the

Answer 14

Small intestine

Question 15

How big is your small intestine and what does it look like and where is it located

Answer 15

20 to 25 foot tube that is coiled up in your abdomen

Question 16

The most important part of digestion takes place in the

Answer 16

Small intestine

Question 17

As chime travels through your small intestine the nutrients are absorbed by millions of tiny finger-like

Answer 17

Villi

Question 18

When chyme travels through your small intestine and the nutrients are absorbed by Villi where then do the nutrients go

Answer 18

Into your bloodstream where the nutrients can travel to all your body cells

Question 19

Does the body use all the food we eat

Answer 19

No

Question 20

Where does the undigested food go after it leaves the small intestine

Answer 20

The large intestine

Question 21

How long is the large intestine

Answer 21

About 5 feet long

Question 22

Which is longer, the large intestine or the small intestine

Answer 22

The small intestine

Question 23

Which intestine is thicker and wider, the large intestine or the small intestine

Answer 23

The large intestine

Question 24

The undigested food enters the blank as a liquid paste

Answer 24

Large intestine

Question 25

In the large intestine water is removed from the liquid paste turning what is left into what

Answer 25

Solid waste

Question 26

Solid waste then collect at the end of the large intestine and will

Answer 26

Finally leave the body

Question 27

Give the order of the digestive system

Answer 27

Mouth
esophagus 
stomach 
small intestine
large intestine