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Digestive System Web Activity!
Website 1 http://www.kidshealth.org/teen/your_body/body_basics/digestive_system.html
1) Read “About the Digestive System.” Why do we digest food in the first place? Explain in your own
words. What nutrients are involved?
2) Click on “Body Basics: Digestive System” in the blue box. Click on each organ and give
description of function.
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Mouth
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Pharynx
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Epiglottis
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Esophagus
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Liver
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Gallbladder
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Stomach
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Pancreas
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Small intestine
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Large intestine
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Appendix
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Anus
Scroll down to, “Things That Can Go Wrong with the Digestive System.”
3) What is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and what digestive organs does it involve
4) What is Cystic Fibrosis and what digestive organs does it involve?
5) What is Hepatitis and what digestive organs does it involve?
Website 2 - http://healthyliving.msn.com/diseases/heartburn-and-gerd/10-foodstough-to-digest-1#5
10) Of the ten foods listed choose 2 and explain why they take longer to digest.
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Website 3 - http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/digest/index.htm
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First, play “Building Your System”
Next, click on “Inside Story” and check out the neat pictures!
Finally, click on, “Food Path.”
12) Drag some foods into the body. Name at least 2 differences between how some of these foods
were digested from each other.
Bonus
1.
How much saliva do you swallow a day?
2.
What is the normal pH of your stomach?