Your Digestive System

Your intestines have a surface area about what size?

• The size of a pea

• the size of a tennis court

• the size of book

• the size of a fist

How does your large and small intestines fit inside of you?

• Like a giant slinky that scrunches up.

• Like a cotton ball

• Like a wet sponge soaked in water

• Like a plain piece of white paper

What is the purpose of your body’s digestive system?

• to help your blood move through the body

• to help you breathe

• to help your body make food

• to help your body break down food

After you swallow your food, where does it travel through to get to your stomach?

• trachea
• small intestine
• liver
• It travels through your esophagus

Where does the digestion begins?

• lungs
• stomach
• mouth when you chew and swallow

• intestines

When your stomach mixes food with liquid where does it go?

• esophagus
• liver
• large intestine
• it dumps it into the small intestine

Which organ takes nutrients from your food and puts them in your bloodstream?

• stomach

• small intestine

• esophagus

• . large intestine

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What do the walls of the small intestine do?

• Secrete digestive enzymes
• soak up nutrients from your food

• Produce bile
• Store waste products

Place these events in the correct order. Number each sentence 1- 5.

• Food is in the large intestine.

• Food waste leaves the body.

• Food is chewed up.

• Food ends up in the small intestine.

• Food travels through the esophagus.

What is fiber?

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• Fiber is a nutrient that helps digestion.

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