Digestive System Quiz

What Is The Digestive System and It’s Functions?

The digestive system is like a factory inside your body. Busy, busy, busy. What is it busy doing? It breaks down the food you eat and turns it into energy. It also turns your food into nutrients that your body needs to grow and stay healthy.

1. Mouth – Digestion starts when you chew your food. Your teeth breaks the food into smaller pieces, and your saliva helps make it soft and easy to swallow.
2. Esophagus or the food pipe – This is a tube that connects your mouth to your stomach.
3. Stomach – The stomach is like that blender in your kitchen. It mixes the food with stomach acid (i.e hydrochloric acid) and other special juices that help break it down even more.
4. Small Intestine – Here, the food gets broken down into tiny pieces, and important nutrients (like vitamins and proteins) are absorbed into your blood.
5. Large Intestine – It is also known as the colon. Whatever your body doesn’t need moves into the large intestine. Also, water is absorbed here. The leftover waste turns into poop and moves into your rectum.
6. Rectum and Anus – This is the last stop, where stool is stored before it is expelled from your body, via the anus.

Why Is the Digestive System Important?

• It gives your body energy from food.
• It helps get rid of waste that your body doesn’t need.

Without the digestive system, your body wouldn’t get the fuel it needs to work properly. That’s why it is important to eat healthy foods!

Facts About The Digestive System

1. Your Stomach Has Superpowers!

Your stomach is like a mini volcano—it produces acid strong enough to dissolve metal! And here’s the interesting part: your stomach lining replaces itself every few days so it doesn’t get digested too.

2. Your Small Intestine Isn’t Small at All!

Even though it’s called the “small” intestine, it’s not small at all. It’s between 16 – 22 feet long!

3. Farting is a Sign of a Happy Gut!

Oops! Who did that? Your digestive system creates gas while breaking down food, and sometimes, that gas has to escape— that’s why you fart! So, next time someone complains, just tell them, “Hey, it’s just biology. My stomach is doing its job!”

In this quiz, you will be assessed on parts of the human digestive system and human teeth. Best of luck!

 

Results

Name the parts of the human digestive system that you know

#1. a

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#2. b

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#3. c

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#4. d

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#5. e

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#6. It is easier to swallow food because your mouth contains

acid

saliva

water

#7. Food mixes with digestive juices in the

liver

small intestines

#8. Once food passes through the food pipe, it is stored in the

gall bladder

rectum

stomach

#9. Undigested food passes out of the body through the

anus

ileum

colon

#10. In the …………………… is where water,salts and minerals are absorbed.

large intestine

small intestine

gall bladder

#11. The small intestine is also called the

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#12. The oesophagus is also known as the

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#13. Lucia is two years old. The type of teeth she has is called …………….. teeth.

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#14. The type of teeth called ………………………. are used for biting and cutting.

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#15. These teeth are used to tear food.

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#16. We grind food with the help of …………………..

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#17. What keeps your teeth in place so that they don’t fall out?

saliva

gums

tongue

#18. Mwaura is always drinking sodas, eating gum and sucking on lollilops. Is this a good way to take care of his teeth?

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