1. Bringing food into the body through the mouth is called:: MASTICATION
2. Swallowing is properly called:: deglutition
3. Breaking food down into its monomers is called:: HYDROLISIS
4. Bringing the monomers from the digestive lumen into the bloodstream or lacteal
is called: ABSORPTION
5. Elimination of solids from the body is called:: DEFECATION
6. List the parts of the alimentary canal in order here. Don't forget the different parts
of the small and large intestine.: 1. PAROTID GLAND
2. SALIVARY GLAND
3. ESOPHAGUS
4. STOMACH
5. SPLEEN
6. DUODENUM
7. SMALL INTESTINE
8. LARGE INTESTIN (COLON)
9. APPENDIX
10. RECTUM
11. ANUS
7. List the accessory organs here: 1. SALIVARY GLANDS
2.PANCREAS
3.LIVER
4.GALL BLADDER
8. Name two ways to do mechanical digestion: 1. MASTICATION
2. SEGMENTATION
9. What happens during hydrolysis?: USING WATER AND SPECIFIC ENZYMES (SUCRASE
AND LIPASE)
TO BREAK DOWN COVALENT CHEMICAL BONDS
10. How do we add water to the food in the digestive system?: ADD WATER TO THE
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM KNOWN AS MUCUS
11. If water is what actually break foods down, why do we need enzymes?: TO
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, BREAK DOWN THE ADDITIONAL BONDS THAT HOLD FOOD PARTICLES TOGETHER
12. The layer of serous membrane ON the digestive organs is called:: PERITONEUM
13. The layer of serous membrane LINING the cavity for digestive organs is called::
PERITONEUM
14. Where would you find the greater omentum?: ATTACHED TO THE GREATER
CURVATURE OF THE STOMACH
15. Where would you find the lesser omentum?: LIES BETWEEN THE LESSER
CURVATURE OF THE STOMACH
16. What is the function of the mesocolon?: ACTS AS AN AVENUE FOR ABDOMINAL
CAVITY AND PELVIS
17. The food is in a space called the _____________.: LUMEN
18. The innermost layer is called the ________________________.: MUCOSA
19. Then there is the _______________, a layer of connective tissue that contains
many glands.: SUBMUCOSA
20. Then there is a double layer of ________ muscle called the
_____________________________.: SMOOTH/MUSCULARIS
21. The inner layer is ___________, the outer layer is ____________.: CIRCULAR
22. Outside the muscle layers, there is connective tissue called the _____________.:
LONGITUDIAL
23. : SEROSA
24. The nerves which tell the glands to secrete are found in the ____: TUNICA
SUBMUCOSA
25. The nerves which tell the glands to secrete are found in the___TUNICA
SUBMUCOSA___ and are called the _____________: SUBMUCOSAL PLEXUS
26. The nerves which tell the smooth muscle to contract are found between the
____________ and _________ layers.: CIRCULAR AND LONGITUDINAL
27. The nerves which tell the smooth muscle to contract are found between the
___CIRCULAR__________ and ____LONGITUDINAL_______ layers. They are called
the ____________.: MYENTERIC
28. What effect will the sympathetic NS have on the digestive system? ON MUSCLES?:
CONTRACTION OF SPHINCTERS AND BLOOD VESSELS
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