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6. What is the word for breaking fat into smaller droplets?

  • Digestion
  • Egestion
  • Emulsification
  • Exrection

7. What are the benefits of a good blood supply in the small intestine?

  • Less water is lost
  • Less bile is released
  • It allows good absorption of digested food into the blood.
  • Food can be digested quicker

8. Amino acids are products of digestion made by which enzyme?

  • Amylases
  • Carbohydrases
  • Proteases
  • Lipases

9. Chewing food in the mouth is a form of physical digestion. What is the other form?

  • Water and minerals being absorbed into the blood by the large intestine
  • Squeezing food in the stomach
  • The conversion of starch into maltose and then glucose
  • The liver making bile

10. What is the function of the liver?

  • To absorb water and minerals into the blood
  • To make bile
  • To add enzymes
  • To store bile

11. Where do the products of digestion diffuse into from the small intestine?

  • White blood cells
  • Blood plasma or lymph
  • Rectum
  • Large intestine

12. Where is bile stored?

  • In the gall bladder
  • In the pancreas
  • In the liver
  • In the small intestine

13. What does the lipase enzyme break fats into?

  • Amino acids
  • Fats
  • Fatty acids and glycerol
  • Maltose

14. What is an enzyme?

  • A microorganism
  • A biological catalyst
  • Something which is changed during a reaction

15. What is the optimum pH of the protease enzyme?

  • pH 7
  • pH1-2
  • pH 5-6
  • pH 10