Digestive System Bank
  • 1. If you wanted to relieve an acidy stomach, you'd want a liquid with a pH at which number.
A) 2
B) 1
C) 9
D) 7
E) 6
  • 2. What is a small tear or hole in the lining of your stomach or small intestine called?
A) Ulcer
B) Appendix
C) Villi
D) Peristalsis
  • 3. What finger like folds help the stomach have a greaters surface
A) Smallpox
B) Ulcers
C) Peristalsis
D) Villi
  • 4. Is like an on/off switch that opens and closes to let food into one part of the digestive system from another
A) Villi
B) Spinchter
C) Anus
D) Appendix
  • 5. What happens if too little water is pullled out of partially digested food in your large intestine?
A) Constipation
B) Peristalsis
C) Appendicitis
D) Diarrhea
  • 6. What is the wavelike motion of muscles that moves food through the digestive system?
A) Peristalsis
B) Constipation
C) Appendicitis
D) Ulcers
  • 7. What type of muscle tissue is in your digestive system?
A) Striated
B) Heart
C) Smooth
D) Ulcerated
  • 8. In what part of the digestive system are most nutrients absorbed?
A) Stomach
B) Esophagus
C) Anus
D) Small Intestine
E) Large Intestine
  • 9. How do the nutrients in food enter your bloodstream to get to the rest of your body?
A) Saliva
B) Stomach Acid
C) Appendix
D) Capillaries
  • 10. What would you do to relieve constipation?
  • 11. Approxiately how long are the intestines in an adult?
A) 22 ft.
B) 40 ft.
C) 18 ft.
D) 15 ft.
E) 50 ft.
  • 12. What causes gas?
  • 13. You have to have surgery to remove an obstruction from your intestine. What might you have to have for the rest of your life?
  • 14. Why aren't you able to eat six saltine crackers in one minute?
  • 15. Give a step by step description of how food goes through the digestive system and what happens to it along the way. Write it like this: Step 1..... Step 2..... Step 3......
  • 16. What is the name of the tube through which food passes on the way to the stomach?
A) sphincter
B) rectum
C) esophagus
D) trachea
  • 17. What is the name of the flap that keeps food from going through your windpipe?
A) epiglottis
B) uvula
C) esophagus
D) salivary gland
E) appendix
  • 18. In what part of the digestive system is waste stored right before it leaves the body?
A) rectum
B) small intestine
C) esophagus
D) stomach
  • 19. Describe the role of the teeth and tongue in digestion.
  • 20. What causes you to throw up?
A) Epiglottal Fluttering
B) Overproduction of stomach acid
C) Too much water being pulled from the large intestine
D) Reverse peristalsis
  • 21. What is the name of the organ that we don't really use in our digestive system?
A) Rectum
B) Small Intestine
C) Epiglottis
D) Large intestine
E) Appendix
  • 22. If we tested the pH of medium level hot sauce, it would most likely be this? (Hint: Think about the pH of stomach acid and how hot sauce might compare)
A) 7
B) 10
C) 4
D) 1
E) 12
  • 23. If a person got a piece of food in their windpipe (trachea), what did not work properly?
A) Small Intestine
B) Esophagus
C) Stomach
D) Epiglottis
E) Teeth
  • 24. Which of these organs does not produce chemicals that aid in digestion?
A) Gall Bladder
B) Liver
C) Pancreas
D) Appendix
  • 25. If you put one saltine in water, one in milk of magnesia, and one in orange juice - Which do you think would break down the fastest? Explain why.
  • 26. Why doesn't stomach acid burn through the tissues in your digestive system?
  • 27. Things float in space because there is not gravity. How are astronauts able to eat and not have food float up their digestive tubes when they eat?
  • 28. True or False: Bases (the opposite of acids) are often used as cleaning products.
A) True
B) False
  • 29. True or False: Bases (the opposite of acids) are never harmful to humans
A) True
B) False
  • 30. If you had diarrhea, you might also be...
A) dehydrated
B) constipated
C) have a blocked intestine
D) have appendicitis
E) have a clogged rectum
  • 31. Heartburn affects this digestive organ the most.
A) Esophagus
B) Rectum
C) Small Intestine
D) Large Intestine
  • 32. If your stomach could not digest lactase properly - what type of food should you avoid.
A) Spicy food
B) Alcohol
C) Milk or Dairy
D) Meat
  • 33. Why don't all farts smell the same? Be specific
  • 34. How are the small and large intestines similar (what do they both do)? Also describe how they are different?
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