Name:
Date:
Directions: ANSWER USING COMPLETE SENTENCES! Use the information you have been given to answer questions about: The Digestive System: The role of the Stomach.
Level#1
Food passes from the esophagus into the stomach. Food can stay in the stomach for up to six hours! The stomach is made of muscle it moves the food around to help digest.
1. Where does the food come from that ends up in the stomach?
2. What can stay in the stomach for up to six hours?
3. What does the stomach do to help you to digest food?
Level#2
Food passes from the esophagus into the stomach. Food can stay in the stomach for up to six hours! Like the mouth mechanical digestion and chemical digestion take place in the stomach. Muscles in the stomach move the food around. Enzymes and acids are released to break down the food chemically.
1. Where does the food that enters the stomach come from?
2. When the muscles in your stomach are moving the food around, what type of digestion is taking place?
3. What part of your digestive system does similar things that also goes on in your mouth?
4. What do enzymes and acids do when they are released in the stomach?
Level#3
Food passes from the esophagus into the stomach. Food can stay in the stomach for up to six hours! Like the mouth mechanical digestion and chemical digestion take place in the stomach. Muscles in the stomach move the food around. Enzymes and acids are released to break down the food chemically. The body produces a coating of mucus to protect the stomach lining from these acids.
1. What does the body do to protect the stomach lining from the acids it uses to digest food?
2. What is released in your stomach to break down the food chemically?
3. How are your mouth and your stomach alike?
4. When the muscles in your stomach are moving the food around, what type of digestion is taking place?
Parent's Signature: ________________________
Parent Comments:
No comments:
Post a Comment