1. Digestive Dilemmas
Trivia Game

2. What is a shorter name for the alimentary canal?
Question 1
What is a shorter name for the alimentary canal?

3. Question 2
Which of the following is considered an accessory organ of the digestive system?
Mouth
Stomach
Liver
Colon

4. What is the largest salivary gland?
Question 3
What is the largest salivary gland?

5. Question 4
Place the following parts of the large intestines in sequence of how food passes.
Transverse colon
Rectum
Descending colon
Sigmoid Colon
Cecum
Ascending colon

6. Which section of the small intestine receives the common bile duct?
Question 5
Which section of the small intestine receives the common bile duct?

7. Question 6
Which sphincter keeps food from the stomach from going into the esophagus?

8. The stomach secretes this to allow for the uptake of B12.
Question 7
The stomach secretes this to allow for the uptake of B12.

9. In which digestive organ does most of absorption occur?
Question 8
In which digestive organ does most of absorption occur?

10. Question 9
What is structure #2?

11. Question 10
What is the name for structure C that empties into the large intestine.

12. Which structures increase surface area of the small intestine?
Question 11
Which structures increase surface area of the small intestine?

13. Proteins are eventually broken down into these structures.
Question 12
Proteins are eventually broken down into these structures.

14. Question 13
What is the name of the process in which fat is broken down into micelles?

15. What enzyme is found in saliva and digests starch?
Question 14
What enzyme is found in saliva and digests starch?

16. What is the name of the folds of an empty stomach, shown here?
Question 15
What is the name of the folds of an empty stomach, shown here?

17. What is the name for the muscle movement in the diagram to the right?
Question 16
What is the name for the muscle movement in the diagram to the right?

18. Question 17
This membranous structure connects the small intestine to the abdominal wall.

19. Question 18
What is the structure hanging down from the greater curvature of the stomach?

20. What enzyme breaks down proteins in the small intestine?
Question 19
What enzyme breaks down proteins in the small intestine?

21. This structure secretes bile and stores vitamins.
Question 20
This structure secretes bile and stores vitamins.

22. What is the innermost layer of the GI tract called?
Question 21
What is the innermost layer of the GI tract called?

23. This blood vessel carries blood into the liver to be filtered.
Bonus
This blood vessel carries blood into the liver to be filtered.

24. Digestive Dilemmas
Answers

25. What is a shorter name for the alimentary canal?
Question 1
What is a shorter name for the alimentary canal?
GI Tract

26. Question 2
Which of the following is considered an accessory organ of the digestive system?
Mouth
Stomach
Liver
Colon

27. What is the largest salivary gland?
Question 3
What is the largest salivary gland?
Parotid

28. Question 4
Place the following parts of the large intestines in sequence of how food passes.
Transverse colon 3
Rectum 6
Descending colon 4
Sigmoid Colon 5
Cecum 1
Ascending colon 2

29. Which section of the small intestine receives the common bile duct?
Question 5
Which section of the small intestine receives the common bile duct?
duodenum

30. Question 6
Which sphincter keeps food from the stomach from going into the esophagus?
Cardiac

31. The stomach secretes this to allow for the uptake of B12.
Question 7
The stomach secretes this to allow for the uptake of B12.
Intrinsic factor

32. In which digestive organ does most of absorption occur?
Question 8
In which digestive organ does most of absorption occur?
Small intestines

33. Question 9
What is structure #2?
Gall bladder

34. Question 10
What is the name for structure C that empties into the large intestine.
Ileum

35. Which structures increase surface area of the small intestine?
Question 11
Which structures increase surface area of the small intestine?
Villi,microvilli

36. Proteins are eventually broken down into these structures.
Question 12
Proteins are eventually broken down into these structures.
Amino acids

37. Question 13
What is the name of the process in which fat is broken down into micelles?
emulsification

38. What enzyme is found in saliva and digests starch?
Question 14
What enzyme is found in saliva and digests starch?
amylase

39. What is the name of the folds of an empty stomach, shown here?
Question 15
What is the name of the folds of an empty stomach, shown here?
rugae

40. What is the name for the muscle movement in the diagram to the right?
Question 16
What is the name for the muscle movement in the diagram to the right?
peristalisis

41. Question 17
This membranous structure connects the small intestine to the abdominal wall.
mesentary

42. Question 18
What is the structure hanging down from the greater curvature of the stomach?
Greater omentum

43. What enzyme breaks down proteins in the small intestine?
Question 19
What enzyme breaks down proteins in the small intestine?
Trypsin, peptidases

44. This structure secretes bile and stores vitamins.
Question 20
This structure secretes bile and stores vitamins.
Liver

45. What is the innermost layer of the GI tract called?
Question 21
What is the innermost layer of the GI tract called?
mucosa

46. This blood vessel carries blood into the liver to be filtered.
Bonus
This blood vessel carries blood into the liver to be filtered.
Hepatic portal vein