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Grade 10 Digestive System Worksheet with Answers
Grade 10 (US) · Year 11 (UK) · Class 10 (India) · Biology
Unit 4: Human Body SystemsBody Systems
How food is broken down as it passes through the mouth, oesophagus, stomach and intestines. This free high school worksheet has 12 questions and a full answer key. Print it or save it as a PDF — every answer is checked by code, not guessed.
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Grade 10 · Biology
Name
Class
Date
Learning goal: Body Systems
Directions: This worksheet has 2 parts. Read the instructions at the start of each part.
Which organ first breaks down food using acid?
Answer: the stomach
RememberPath of food (digestive system)
Match each clue to the right word. Write the letter in the box.
- 1Where does most nutrient absorption happen?
- 2What is the long tube that carries food from your mouth to your stomach called?
- 3What organ absorbs water and forms solid waste?
- 4What are the tiny finger-like folds lining the small intestine called?
- 5Where does digestion begin?
- 6Which organ stores bile until it is needed?
- AGallbladder
- BLarge intestine
- CSmall intestine
- DEsophagus
- EVilli
- FIn the mouth
Answer each question. Use full sentences where you can.
- 7
Why does the stomach have a thick lining of mucus?
- 8
How do villi help the small intestine absorb food?
- 9
Which organ makes digestive juices and insulin?
- 10
What is the wave-like muscle movement that pushes food through the gut called?
- 11
What organ produces bile to help digest fat?
- 12
What do we call the process of breaking food into nutrients the body can use?
★ Challenge corner for fast finishers
If Earth stopped spinning, how long would one day (sunrise to sunrise) be?
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Answer key — Digestive System (Grade 10)
- 1.C — the small intestine
- 2.D — the esophagus
- 3.B — the large intestine
- 4.E — villi
- 5.F — in the mouth
- 6.A — the gallbladder
- 7.to protect it from its own strong acid
- 8.they give it a huge surface area for nutrients to pass into the blood
- 9.the pancreas
- 10.peristalsis
- 11.the liver
- 12.digestion
- ★about one year
Answer key (click to show)
- 1.C — the small intestine
- 2.D — the esophagus
- 3.B — the large intestine
- 4.E — villi
- 5.F — in the mouth
- 6.A — the gallbladder
- 7.to protect it from its own strong acid
- 8.they give it a huge surface area for nutrients to pass into the blood
- 9.the pancreas
- 10.peristalsis
- 11.the liver
- 12.digestion
- ★about one year (challenge corner)
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