My Incredible Body: Digestion

The space inside your mouth that changes shape so you can chew, swollow, and speak.

• Oral cavity

• Pie hole

• Teeth

• Salivary Glands

By the time you’re grown up, you’ll have _______ adult teeth.

• 12

• 20

• 28

• 45

What is the tongue covered in that helps us taste?

• duodenum

• villi

• saliva

• taste buds

What is the word for the savory taste that makes food taste richer?

• salty

• umami

• sour

• sweet

About how much saliva do you make in a day?

• 1 tablespoon

• 1 cup

• 1 liter

• 1 gallon

What percentage of your saliva is water?

• 1%

• 50%

• 99%

• 100%

The space all the way at the back of your mouth and nose where food passes through to the stomach and air passes through to the lungs.

• pharynx

• esophagus

• throat

• tongue

After you chew and swollow, how long does it take for food to travel down your esophagus to your stomach?

• 10 milliseconds

• 1 second

• 5 seconds

• 30 seconds

This organ filters out all the bad stuff that gets into blood from what you ingest.

• gallbladder

• stomach

• pancreas

• liver

Storage tank for bile.

• gallbladder

• liver

• pancreas

• stomach