Trace a meal through the digestive system
7th grade (Year 8 in England) · 11 questions · Common Core: NGSS.MS-LS1-3 · England: KS3 Biology: Nutrition and digestion, GCSE Combined Science: Organisation
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Question 1
Food has just left the large intestine. Where does it go next?
- A. anus
- B. stomach
- C. small intestine
- D. oesophagus (esophagus)
Question 2
Where is most water absorbed back into the body?
- A. liver
- B. large intestine
- C. mouth
- D. stomach
Question 3
Food has just left the oesophagus (esophagus). Where does it go next?
- A. large intestine
- B. anus
- C. mouth
- D. stomach
Question 4
What pushes food along the oesophagus (esophagus), even if you are upside down?
- A. gravity only
- B. waves of muscle contraction (peristalsis)
- C. the heart
- D. air pressure
Question 5
Food has just left the oesophagus (esophagus). Where does it go next?
- A. stomach
- B. anus
- C. mouth
- D. large intestine
Question 6
Which organ makes hydrochloric acid that kills microbes in food?
- A. small intestine
- B. large intestine
- C. stomach
- D. pancreas
Question 7
Food has just left the mouth. Where does it go next?
- A. oesophagus (esophagus)
- B. stomach
- C. anus
- D. small intestine
Question 8
What pushes food along the oesophagus (esophagus), even if you are upside down?
- A. waves of muscle contraction (peristalsis)
- B. air pressure
- C. gravity only
- D. the heart
Question 9
Food has just left the large intestine. Where does it go next?
- A. stomach
- B. anus
- C. small intestine
- D. mouth
Question 10
What pushes food along the oesophagus (esophagus), even if you are upside down?
- A. air pressure
- B. waves of muscle contraction (peristalsis)
- C. the heart
- D. gravity only
Question 11
Food has just left the mouth. Where does it go next?
- A. anus
- B. oesophagus (esophagus)
- C. large intestine
- D. small intestine
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