Digestive System

Question 1

What are ingestive feeders?

Answer 1

Ingest living or dead organisms, plants, or animals through a mouth

Question 2

What are the 3 types of ingestive feeders?

Answer 2

Suspension feeders
Substrate feeders
Fluid feeders

Question 3

What are suspension feeders

Answer 3

They extricate food suspended in surrounding water

Fish or clams

Question 4

What are substrate feeders

Answer 4

Live in or on their food source

Caterpillars or worms

Question 5

What are fluid feeders?

Answer 5

They extract nutrient-rich fluids from a living plant or animal host
Mosquitoes aphids

Question 6

What are the 3 types of eaters?

Answer 6

Omnivores
Herbivores
Carnivores

Question 7

What are omnivores

Answer 7

Eat plants and animals

Question 8

What are herbivores?

Answer 8

Plant eaters

Question 9

What are carnivores

Answer 9

Animal eaters

Question 10

What are the four stages of food processing

Answer 10

Ingestion
Digestion
Absorption
Elimination

Question 11

What is ingestion?

Answer 11

Taking food in through your mouth

Question 12

What is digestion

Answer 12

Breaking down of the food molecules to small enough forms to be absorbed by the body.

Question 13

Why are fats, proteins, and carbohydrates broken down?

Answer 13

They are broken down because they are too large to be absorbed through plasma membranes and enter into cells.

Question 14

Why do animals need monomers?

Answer 14

Animals need monomers in order to build its own polymers that make up their own body
All organisms use the same monomers

Question 15

What is absorption?

Answer 15

Absorption is the absorption of the broken down of nutrients for use by the body

Question 16

What do cells lining the digestive track do?

Answer 16

The cells lining the digestive tract absorb the small nutrient molecules.

Question 17

What are absorptive feeders

Answer 17

Organisms such as tapeworms lack a mouth or digestive tract and absorb nutrients through their body surface