Which organ system includes the esophagus, pancreas, and large intestine?
digestive
excretory
integumentary
lymphatic
2. Multiple Choice
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When you eat a cheeseburger, your digestive _______ digests the cheeseburger.
glands
organ
system
tissue
3. Multiple Choice
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During the production of yogurt, specific _______ are used to ferment the milk. In turn the same ______ are beneficial to our digestive system when we eat the yogurt.
algae
bacteria
fungi
protozoan
4. Multiple Choice
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The bacteria species E-coli is actually beneficial to humans. It plays an important role in which body function?
digestion
excretion
metabolism
reproduction
5. Multiple Choice
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Bacteria are very small single-celled organisms that lack a nucleus. Although bacterial cells are less complex than the cells that make up the human body, bacteria are very important to human health. Which statement best summarizes how bacteria affect human health.
Bacteria cause disease in humans.
Bacteria are beneficial to humans.
Bacteria rarely affect human cells because they are so much smaller.
Some bacteria are beneficial to humans and some are harmful.
6. Multiple Choice
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Humans cannot digest food without the aid of small single-celled organisms that live in our digestive tract. Which common name is associated with these single-celled organisms that help humans digest food?
algae
bacteria
protozoa
virus
7. Multiple Choice
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Which organ is part of the digestive system?
blood
brain
pancreas
spleen
8. Multiple Choice
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Mouth to stomach to intestines. What system helps the digestive system move food until it becomes waste?
circulatory
immune
muscular
skeletal
9. Multiple Choice
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What is the organ where water is absorbed from the digested food and returned to the bloodstream?
mouth
small intestine
esophagus
large intestine
10. Multiple Choice
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Which organ is a secondary organ that stores bile?
stomach
gallbladder
pancreas
liver
11. Multiple Choice
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Which organ is made of three layers of muscles that continue mechanical digestion?
stomach
liver
anus
esophagus
12. Multiple Choice
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Which organ does most of the chemical digestion of food and allows nutrients to be absorbed into the body?
stomach
esophagus
small intestine
liver
13. Multiple Choice
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Digestion in animals begins in the ______.
intestines
mouth
stomach
throat
14. Multiple Choice
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Predict the next digestive system organ in the following sequence: mouth, pharynx, esophagus, stomach, ______
liver
kidneys
small intestines
large intestines
15. Multiple Choice
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We think of our muscular system as the system that helps us move around. It also functions on an internal level by helping food movement in the _____ and _____, both parts of the digestive system.
stomach; liver
stomach; pancreas
stomach: gallbladder
stomach; small intestines
16. Multiple Choice
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What is the short tube that stores solid waste until it is eliminated from the body through the anus?
rectum
liver
esophagus
stomach
17. Multiple Choice
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Which secondary organ produces insulin and other digestive juices to further break down the food in the small intestines?
liver
gallbladder
mouth
pancreas
18. Multiple Choice
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Which type of digestion produces physical change to the food by breaking food into smaller pieces?