Interactive Learning

Interactive Learning › All activities › Multiple choice quiz

The Digestive System Challenge

Multiple choice quiz · 10 items · by Ganna · 4 plays
Play nowMake a copyPrint worksheet

Use it with your class

Send this link to your students: it opens the game directly, no sign-up needed.

What’s inside

Read each question carefully and choose the correct answer.

  1. What is the main function of the digestive system?
    To break down food into substances the body can absorb · To control movement · To help us breathe · To pump blood
  2. Where does digestion begin?
    In the large intestine · In the mouth · In the small intestine · In the stomach
  3. What is the function of teeth?
    To absorb nutrients · To absorb water · To cut and grind food · To produce bile
  4. What is the role of saliva?
    To absorb water · To moisten food and begin starch digestion · To remove waste · To store food
  5. What does the pharynx do during swallowing?
    It absorbs nutrients · It helps move food into the esophagus · It produces bile · It stores waste
  6. What is the function of the esophagus?
    To absorb nutrients · To absorb water · To carry food from the pharynx to the stomach · To produce saliva
  7. What happens to food in the stomach?
    It becomes blood · It is chewed by teeth · It is completely absorbed · It mixes with digestive juices
  8. Where are most nutrients absorbed?
    In the esophagus · In the large intestine · In the mouth · In the small intestine
  9. What is the function of the large intestine?
    To absorb water from undigested food · To carry food to the stomach · To chew food · To produce saliva
  10. Where does the digestive tract end?
    At the anus · At the mouth · At the small intestine · At the stomach
Answer key
  1. What is the main function of the digestive system? → To break down food into substances the body can absorb
  2. Where does digestion begin? → In the mouth
  3. What is the function of teeth? → To cut and grind food
  4. What is the role of saliva? → To moisten food and begin starch digestion
  5. What does the pharynx do during swallowing? → It helps move food into the esophagus
  6. What is the function of the esophagus? → To carry food from the pharynx to the stomach
  7. What happens to food in the stomach? → It mixes with digestive juices
  8. Where are most nutrients absorbed? → In the small intestine
  9. What is the function of the large intestine? → To absorb water from undigested food
  10. Where does the digestive tract end? → At the anus
Advertisement

How to use it in class

Play it on the board with the whole class, send the link to your students, or make a copy and change the questions. No sign-up needed to play.

Share

Put it on your website

Copy this code into your website, blog or online classroom (Google Sites, Moodle, WordPress…).

Create your own — free

Made with the free quiz maker · Interactive Learning

More activities like this