Download Animal Digestion practice TEST

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Animal Digestion
True / False- Circle the Correct Answer
1. True / False The purpose of a digestive system is to take food ingested by the animal and convert it
into a usable form called energy
2. True / False Monogastric animals have four separate and distinct stomach compartments: The rumen,
reticulum, abomasum, and omasum.
3. True / False The upper and lower incisors chew the feedstuff before being swallowed by the
polygastric (ruminant) animal.
4. True / False The rumen is the only glandular or true stomach of a ruminant animal.
5. True / False Cattle, Sheep, and Goats, are all ruminant animals.
Multiple Choice: Circle the correct answer to each question.
6. Which of the following makes up the large intestine?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Colon & Cecum
Colon & Jejunum
Duodenum & Jejunum
Illeum & Duodenum
7. Unlike monogastrics, ruminants do not have upper front teeth. What do they have instead?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Cleft Pallet
Dental Pad
Reticular Groove
Incisors
8. Monogastrics have difficulty digesting fibers. Without the ruminant system (4 chamber stomach) they can’t
break down _____________________.
A.
B.
C.
D.
Milk that is high in calcium
Concentrates that are high in carbohydrates
Roughages that are high in cellulose
Mixed feeds that have high amounts of protein
9. What portion of the modified monogastric digestive system is enlarged to allow animals who eat a high
percentage of fiber to digest their food when they only have a single chamber stomach?
A.
B.
C.
D.
E.
Cecum
Colon
Large Intestine
Multi compartment stomach
Small Intestine
10. What are the four stomach compartments in a ruminant animal?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Paunch, Glandular, Honeycomb, Reticulum
Rumen, Abomasum, Jejunum, Ileum
Rumen, Omasum, Abomasum, Reticulum
Rumen, Reticulum, Abomasum, Paunch
11. Which type of muscle is the digestive system composed of?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Cardiac
Skeletal
Smooth
Striated
12. There are 3 portions of the small intestine. Name them in order.
A.
B.
C.
D.
1st Duodenum, 2nd Ilium, 3rd Jejunum
1st Duodenum, 2nd Jejunum, 3rd Ilium
1st Ilium, 2nd Duodenum, 3rd Jejunum
1st Jejunum, 2nd Duodenum, 3rd Ilium
13. Which compartment in the ruminant system looks like the pages of a book and has very little moisture?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Abomasum
Omasum
Reticulum
Rumen
14. What is the structure in a young ruminant (calf) that allows milk to bypass the rumen and reticulum?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Cleft Pallet
Dental Pad
Reticular Groove
Incisors
15. What organ in the avian digestive system is only found in birds AND replaces the function of teeth by
physically breaking down food?
A.
B.
C.
D.
Gizzard
Crop
Proventriculus
Ceca
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Matching -- Match the animals on the left to the type of digestive system they have . Each option may be used
once, more than once, or not at all.
11. _______ Rabbit
12. _______ Cattle
13. _______ Horses
A. Ruminant
14. _______ Pigs
B. Monogastric
15. _______ Dogs
C. Modified Monogastric
16. _______Turkeys
D. Avian
17. _______Goats
18. _______Chickens
19. _______Sheep
20. _______Ducks
Short Answer: Answer each question below
21. The walls of the small intestine are lined with small fingerlike projections called
______________________.
22. The rumen also contains small fingerlike projections but they are called ____________________ and
absorb nutrients through the rumen wall to provide energy.
23. Food is stored and soaked in the ______________________ of a bird before it continues through the
digestive tract.
24. _______________________ is an enzyme that begins the chemical breakdown of carbohydrates in the
mouth.
25. The exit of the avian digestive system is called the ___________________.
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