Digestive System

Question 1

It is the chemical breakdown of complex biological molecules into their
component parts.

Answer 1

Digestion

Question 2

Process by which organisms obtain and utilize their food.

Answer 2

Nutrition

Question 3

Substances that provide energy and materials needed for growth, repair, and maintenance of the cell.

Answer 3

Nutrients

Question 4

Are the main nutrients that make up the foods we eat.

Answer 4

Macronutrients

Question 5

Are one of the major groups of nutrients your body needs. They include vitamins and minerals. Vitamins are necessary for energy production, immune function, blood clotting and other functions.

Answer 5

Micronutrients

Question 6

Chemical breakdown of food using enzymes, bile, hydrochloric acid.

Answer 6

Chemical Digestion

Question 7

Physical breakdown of food.
Chewing, grinding, and mixing food with mouth, tongue, and teeth.

Answer 7

Physical Digestion

Question 8

Sifts small food particles from the water.
Whale, oysters, clams.

Answer 8

Suspension Feeders

Question 9

Animals that live on their food source.
Caterpillar, earthworms.

Answer 9

Substrate Feeders

Question 10

Suck nutrient-rich fluid from a living host. Mosquitos, tick, flea.

Answer 10

Fluid Feeders

Question 11

Eats relatively large pieces of food.
Snake, lion, humans.

Answer 11

Bulk Feeders

Question 12

Dogs, cats, humans (type of digestive system).

Answer 12

Monogastric (simple)

Question 13

Chicken, birds, ducks (type of digestive system).

Answer 13

Avian

Question 14

Carabao, goat, cow (type of digestive system).

Answer 14

Ruminants (polygastric)

Question 15

Rabbit, horse, camel (type of digestive system).

Answer 15

Pseudo-ruminants

Question 16

Rely on keeping up a constant water flow through their bodies to obtain food and oxygen. Sponges. (invertebrates digestive system).

Answer 16

Porifera

Question 17

Extracellular digestion. Uses gastrovascular cavity as mouth and anus. Jellyfish, corals, hydra. (invertebrates digestive system).

Answer 17

Cnidarians

Question 18

Uses gastrovascular cavity as mouth and anus (invertebrates digestive system).

Answer 18

Platyhelminthes

Question 19

With a mouth, stomach, and anus. Starfish, sea urchins (invertebrates digestive system).

Answer 19

Echinoderms

Question 20

Permits one way flow of ingested food without mixing it with waste and food. From mouth and ends in anus (invertebrates digestive system).

Answer 20

Arthropoda (crabs, grasshoppers, spiders)
Chordata (sea squirts, lancelets, hagfish)
Mollusca (snails, octopus, squid)
Nematoda (hookworms, roundworms)