Question

Place the following processes of beginning digestion of a piece of pizza in order from what Happens first to last identifying the letter of each step in order.

A. Pizza is broken down by salvia

B. Food is swallowed

C. Pizza is chewed in the mouth using teeth and tongue

D. Pizza enters stomach where mechanical digestion’s occurs

E. Pizza moves to back of throat (pharynx) and epiglottis closes windpipe

F. Pizza travels slowly down the esophagus by peristalsis

G. The pizza continues to digest chemically in the stomach with acids and enzymes

Answer 1

C to A to E to B to F to D and finally G

Answer 2

1)C. Pizza is chewed in the mouth using teeth and tongue
2)A. Pizza is broken down by salvia 
3)E. Pizza moves to back of throat (pharynx) and epiglottis closes windpipe
4)B. Food is swallowed 
5)F. Pizza travels slowly down the esophagus by peristalsis
6)G. The pizza continues to digest chemically in the stomach with acids and enzymes