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Digestive System

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

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Class
Date
1.

What is the purpose of the digestive system?

a)

To exchange gasses in your body

b)

to get rid of waste in the body

c)

to break down food into nutrients the body can use

d)

to break down food into oxygen

2.

______ is the watery liquid that begins to chemically break down food in your mouth.

a)

salivary glands

b)

saliva

c)

mucus

d)

water

3.

Food stays in your _____ for hours where it mixes with acid.

a)

small intestines

b)

large intestines

c)

stomach

d)

esophagus

4.

What do you call the organ that takes food from your mouth to your stomach?

a)

acid

b)

stomach

c)

esophagus

d)

villi

5.

When food mixes with acid in your stomach, we call the new liquid _______.

a)

gross

b)

villi

c)

chyme

d)

stomata

6.

Most digestion takes place in this organ. It is really long.

a)

small intestines

b)

large intestines

c)

esophagus

d)

pancreas

7.

Food travels down your esophagus through a wavelike motion called ____.

a)

gravity

b)

falling

c)

peristalsis

d)

squeezing

8.

Digestion begins in the _________________.

a)

liver

b)

mouth

c)

gallbladder

d)

stomach

9.

Which shows the correct order of digestion?

a)

mouth, pharynx, stomach, small intestines, esophagus

b)

pharynx, esophagus, stomach, small intestines, large intestines

c)

mouth, esophagus, large intestines, stomach, small intestines,

d)

stomach, large intestines, esophagus, small intestines

10.

Water from your undigested food is absorbed in the ___________________?

a)

small intestines

b)

stomach

c)

liver

d)

large intestines