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1. We begin our journey in the mouth. It houses the teeth and tongue, and is where we begin chewing our food. When we use our teeth, we know that there is enamel covering the teeth. Are we able to create more enamel if we lose some?
2. I've finished chewing my food and now I'm ready to swallow into my esophagus. At the top of my esophagus lies the epiglottis so that I don't choke. What force makes it so that when I am upside down, I can still swallow (and not have it come out of my mouth)?
3. My food is now being digested in the stomach. If I develop inflammation of my stomach, then would I call it stomatitis?
4. Just before entering the small intestine, my food has to pass through the pyloric sphincter located just before the duodenum. What chamber of the stomach is my food in currently (The very last chamber of the stomach)?
5. Ok, my food is in the small intestine now, and its passing along millions of small hairlike projections called villi. It's on its journey through three sections of the small intestine. What are they in the right order?
6. My food has now entered the large intestine. If I wanted to illuminate the colon on a x-ray, what chemical would I use?
7. My food has reached the end of my digestive tract. It is now sitting in my rectum. However, "when nature calls," I will need to excrete my waste through my anus. What is another term for this "excretion process?"
8. After excreting my waste, I noticed that I was hungry again. I grabbed a granola bar and started chewing on it. What is another term for chewing?
9. Unfortunately, I forgot that I was allergic to granola bars and I started to vomit. What is the medical term for vomiting?
10. The digestive system has many organs that help it function correctly. Which of the following is not a digestive organ?
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