Your Digestive System

Why do you have to chew food before it goes down the oesophagus?

Name something that happens to the food while in your stomach.

How much food does the average adult eat in TWO years?

Put these organs in the correct order to show the stages of the digestive system: large intestine, mouth, small intestine, stomach, oesophagus

Where in your body do the nutrients and goodness come out of the food to go into the rest of your body?

In the fact file, the author tells you about a thing called a 'Pillcam' – why would doctors find this useful?

Why has the author used an exclamation mark after the word 'head' near the end of the 'Before the Stomach' section?

What is 'chyme'?

Why has the author started the text with a question sentence?

Why has the author written '(say: a-soff-a-guss)' in the 'Before the Stomach' section?