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The digestive system

4th grade (Year 5 in England) · 11 questions · Common Core: NGSS.MS-LS1-3 · England: KS2 Y4 Animals, including humans, KS3 Biology: Nutrition and digestion

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Question 1
What is the main job of the large intestine?
- A. to chew food
- B. to pump blood
- C. to make saliva
- D. to absorb water
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Question 2
In the path of a bite of apple, what comes straight after "swallowed down the oesophagus (esophagus)"?
- A. nutrients absorbed in the small intestine
- B. churned with acid in the stomach
- C. water absorbed in the large intestine
- D. teeth chew it
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Question 3
What does the stomach do?
- A. churns food with acid and enzymes
- B. chews food
- C. absorbs most of the water
- D. filters the blood
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Question 4
In the path of a bite of apple, what comes straight after "teeth chew it"?
- A. water absorbed in the large intestine
- B. nutrients absorbed in the small intestine
- C. swallowed down the oesophagus (esophagus)
- D. churned with acid in the stomach
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Question 5
What does saliva do?
- A. wets food and starts to digest starch
- B. kills all bacteria in food
- C. absorbs nutrients
- D. digests fat completely
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Question 6
In the path of a bite of apple, what comes straight after "swallowed down the oesophagus (esophagus)"?
- A. churned with acid in the stomach
- B. nutrients absorbed in the small intestine
- C. teeth chew it
- D. water absorbed in the large intestine
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Question 7
Where are most nutrients absorbed into the blood?
- A. the mouth
- B. the stomach
- C. the large intestine
- D. the small intestine
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Question 8
In the path of a bite of apple, what comes straight after "swallowed down the oesophagus (esophagus)"?
- A. churned with acid in the stomach
- B. teeth chew it
- C. water absorbed in the large intestine
- D. nutrients absorbed in the small intestine
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Question 9
Where are most nutrients absorbed into the blood?
- A. the large intestine
- B. the small intestine
- C. the mouth
- D. the stomach
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Question 10
In the journey of food through the digestive system, what comes straight after "stomach"?
- A. oesophagus (esophagus)
- B. large intestine
- C. small intestine
- D. mouth
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Question 11
What does the stomach do?
- A. absorbs most of the water
- B. chews food
- C. filters the blood
- D. churns food with acid and enzymes

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Answer key: The digestive system

1. D. to absorb water
2. B. churned with acid in the stomach
3. A. churns food with acid and enzymes
4. C. swallowed down the oesophagus (esophagus)
5. A. wets food and starts to digest starch
6. A. churned with acid in the stomach
7. D. the small intestine
8. A. churned with acid in the stomach
9. B. the small intestine
10. C. small intestine
11. D. churns food with acid and enzymes