Download Period: Question: How does food break down in your body? (Write

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Question: How does food break down in your body? (Write
your hypothesis as a complete sentence in the space below.
Your hypothesis should include the processes and organs
involved in breaking down food.)
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Evidences: List evidences from your everyday experiences and from
the interactives "All Systems Go" and "Love your guts." (Hint: you
should INCLUDE two from the mouth, one from the stomach, two
from the small intestine, and one from the large intestine.)
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Organs: List, in order, the organs that are involved in the
digestion of food from top to bottom (pun intended)! Use
information from "All Systems Go" http://tinyurl.com/6rrwrlk
and "Love Your Gut" http://tinyurl.com/LoveGut
1. first organ
2. second organ
3. third organ
4. fourth organ
5. fifth organ
Application: How do the organs function interdependently (work
together) to digest food and provide you energy to help you stay alive?
Write your answer as a five sentence paragraph. Include the organs
involved and what processes happen in each organ. Use the back of this
paper if needed.
Name: Possible answers
Date:
Question: How does food break down in your body?
(Write your hypothesis as a complete sentence in the space
below. Your hypothesis should include the processes and
organs involved in breaking down food.)
Suggested responses may include: I eat food and poop it
out. Digestion begins with chewing. Food enters the mouth
and is swallowed and then travels down the esophagus to
the stomach. Food then enters the small intestine, the large
intestine is the last location before exiting the body through
the anus.
Period:
Evidences: List evidences from your everyday experiences and from the
interactives "All Systems Go" and "Love your guts." (Hint: you should
INCLUDE two from the mouth, one from the stomach, two from the
small intestine, and one from the large intestine.)
• Teeth / Chewing
• Saliva
• Stomach Acid
• Villi (absorb nutrients into bloodstream)
• It takes time to travel 22 feet
• Bacteria (microorganisms) can be good or bad
Organs: List, in order, the organs that are involved in the
digestion of food from top to bottom (pun intended)? Use
information from "All Systems Go" http://tinyurl.com/6rrwrlk
and "Love Your Gut" http://tinyurl.com/LoveGut
1. first organ: Mouth
2. second organ: Esophagus
3. third organ: Stomach
4. fourth organ: Small Intestine
5. fifth organ: Large Intestine
Application: How do the organs function interdependently (work
together) to digest food and provide you energy to help you stay
alive? Write your answer as a five sentence paragraph. Include the
organs involved and what processes happen in each organ. Use the
back of this paper if needed.
Your teeth break down the food by chewing. Saliva softens the food
and helps in breaking down the food. Without teeth you can not
digest large pieces of food. The acids in the stomach turn solid food
into liquid so it can be digested by the small intestine. The length of
the small intestine slows down the time it takes food to travel.
Slowing down the food allows nutrients to be absorbed to help you
stay alive. There are both good and bad bacteria in the large
intestine. Eliminating any of these organs interrupts the entire
digestive system. All of these organs must work together
interdependently.