Trace a meal through the digestive system
7th grade (Year 8 in England) · 10 questions · Common Core: NGSS.MS-LS1-3 · England: KS3 Biology: Nutrition and digestion, GCSE Combined Science: Organisation
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Question 1
Which organ makes hydrochloric acid that kills microbes in food?
- A. pancreas
- B. small intestine
- C. large intestine
- D. stomach
Question 2
Food has just left the small intestine. Where does it go next?
- A. large intestine
- B. anus
- C. mouth
- D. oesophagus (esophagus)
Question 3
Which organ makes hydrochloric acid that kills microbes in food?
- A. pancreas
- B. large intestine
- C. small intestine
- D. stomach
Question 4
Food has just left the small intestine. Where does it go next?
- A. oesophagus (esophagus)
- B. large intestine
- C. mouth
- D. stomach
Question 5
What pushes food along the oesophagus (esophagus), even if you are upside down?
- A. air pressure
- B. gravity only
- C. the heart
- D. waves of muscle contraction (peristalsis)
Question 6
Food has just left the small intestine. Where does it go next?
- A. mouth
- B. large intestine
- C. stomach
- D. anus
Question 7
Where are most digested food molecules absorbed into the blood?
- A. small intestine
- B. large intestine
- C. stomach
- D. oesophagus (esophagus)
Question 8
Food has just left the oesophagus (esophagus). Where does it go next?
- A. mouth
- B. stomach
- C. anus
- D. small intestine
Question 9
Which organ makes hydrochloric acid that kills microbes in food?
- A. large intestine
- B. stomach
- C. pancreas
- D. small intestine
Question 10
Food has just left the stomach. Where does it go next?
- A. small intestine
- B. mouth
- C. oesophagus (esophagus)
- D. anus
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