Digestive System

What is the digestive system?

• A system to take out the bad stuff that's in your body

• A system where a certain group of organs work together to convert food into energy to feed the body

• A system where certain organs in the body digest the food you eat

• A system that the organs in the stomach make food for the body to digest.

Where does the digestive system start?

• The liver

• The throat

• The stomach

• The mouth

What does the salivary glands do for the digestive system?

• It produces saliva, which keeps the mouth and other parts of the digestive system moist.

• It produce moist, which keeps the mouth and other parts of the digestive system saliva.

• It produces ptyalin to make saliva for the mouth, so the system can start.

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What are 2 MOST important organs of the digestive system?

• small intestines

• esophagus

• large intestines

• pharynx

What does the small intestine do?

• reabsorbs the water after the process of the system.

• Absorbs most of the nutrients and minerals from the food

• keeps the stomach in balance for when the system starts.

• Absorbs most of the food that's left from the process.

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Which is the esophagus?

• A

• B

• C

• D

• E

What does the large intestine do?

• digest the foods

• makes a pathway for the food

• reabsorb a lot of the water from the digestive process

• absorbs the food from this process

What does the pharynx (back of the throat) have that functions it to swallow the food?

• salivary glands

• saliva walls

• esophagus

• muscular walls

Which parts of the diagram is the small and large intestine?

• A~ small intestine

  E~ large intestine

• D~ small intestine

  E~ large intestine

• C~ large intestine

  B~ small intestine

• A~ large intestine

  C~ small intestine

• E~ small intestine

  D~ large intestine

What carries food from the pharynx (back of the throat) to the stomach?

• larynx

• trachea

• esophagus

• bronchioles