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Digestive System Web Activity!
Go to: 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?
 Click on “Body Basics: Digestive System” in the blue box.
 Click on each organ and read.
2) You might already know some of these facts! Name at least 3 organs and a fact about
each that you learned from this diagram.
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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?
Describe it in your own words.
4) What is Cystic Fibrosis and what digestive organs does it involve? Describe it in your own
words.
5) What is Hepatitis and what digestive organs does it involve? Describe it in your own
words.
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Go to: http://www.medtropolis.com/VBody.asp
Click on “English,” “Digestive Track, ” and “Guided Tour”
Participate in the “Guided Tour.” Watch the animations, they are very helpful!
WATCH EVERYTHING
6) Name and explain 2 things that you were able to visualize more clearly about the
digestive system since you went on the guided tour.
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Click on “Organize Your Organs” and “Start Game” Play this!
7) Click on http://library.thinkquest.org/15401/learn_idiagram_dig.html . This is a cat’s
digestive system. List 2 parts of this system that we have not learned about yet and
explain what they do.
8) Click on: http://www.nexiumresearch.com/digestive_system_facts.html
How much saliva do you swallow a day?
9) Click on http://www.natural-reflux-cure.com/stomach-acid.html
Acids are measured from 1-10 on a pH scale. 1 is the most acidic. How acidic is the acid in
your stomach?!
10) Click on http://arbl.cvmbs.colostate.edu/hbooks/pathphys/digestion/liver/bile.html
The liver makes bile. Why is bile important?
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http://www.harcourtschool.com/activity/digest/index.htm
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.
13) Now that you’ve learning some facts about your digestive system, do you think that your
digestive system is made of mostly voluntary or involuntary muscles? Explain.
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Go to: http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/yuckystuff/belch/js.index.html#
14) Where does the gas that is released from your body come from? Explain after you’ve
read the facts.
15) What makes your body vomit and what is it made up of?
When you finish the web activity, enjoy these quizzes and games….
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http://www.syvum.com/cgi/online/serve.cgi/squizzes/biology/digestive_system.tdf?0
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http://www.curriculumbits.com/proddetail.php?prod=bio0004 Click on “Click here to preview” Take the
quiz!
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Go to: Take the quiz! http://www.kidshealth.org/misc/how_the_body_works/digestive_quiz.html
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http://www.quia.com/jg/66042.html
http://library.thinkquest.org/15401/digest_quiz.html
You may also go to http://www.mypyramid.gov/kids/kids_game.html#