Your Digestive System and How it Works

Question 1

Look at the three pictures in this section. What are they all about?

Answer 1

All 3 show people eating.

Question 2

What is the job of the digestive system?

Answer 2

To process food into nutrients we need to survive.

Question 3

What happens to the food at the end of digestion?

Answer 3

Nutrients and water enter the cells.

Question 4

Name the steps in order when a person digests and apple.

Answer 4

1. Mouth
2. Esophagus
3. Stomach
4. Small intestine, liver, pancreas.
5. Large intestine, colon, rectum.