Digestion- Part 2

Question 1

What is the role of the MOUTH?

Answer 1

Chews up food and mixes with saliva.

Question 2

What is the role of the OESOPHAGUS?

Answer 2

Joins the mouth to the stomach and food is squeezed down it.

Question 3

What is the role of the STOMACH?

Answer 3

Bag with strong muscles that mixes food with acid and begins to break it down.

Question 4

What is the role of the LIVER?

Answer 4

Produces bile which helps with the digestion of fat.

Question 5

What is the role of the PANCREAS?

Answer 5

Provides additional enzymes to help digest all sorts of food.

Question 6

What is the role of the SMALL INTESTINE?

Answer 6

Breaks food down and absorbs nutrients.

Question 7

What is the role of the LARGE INTESTINE?

Answer 7

Absorbs water from the undigested food.

Question 8

What is the role of the RECTUM?

Answer 8

Stores faeces (poo) until it is ready to leave the body.

Question 9

What is the role of the ANUS?

Answer 9

Pushes faeces through and out of the body.

Question 10

What is PERISTALSIS?

Answer 10

Peristalsis is the movement of food through the digestive tract by wave-like muscle contractions. Strong waves of smooth muscle move balls of swallowed food to the stomach from the oesophagus.