Digestive System Webquest!

Complete the following webquest – record your answers in this document using dark green font. Please answer in complete sentences.

Be sure that this document is saved in your spot on the server.

Go to: http://kidshealth.org/teen/your_body/body_basics/digestive_system.html

 Click on Body Basics: Digestive System in the blue box  Click on each organ and read

1) You already know some of these facts! Name at least 3 new facts that you learned from visiting the organs in this digestive system.

Scroll down to “Things that can go wrong with the digestive system”.

2) What is Celiac Disease? Describe it in your own words. 3) What is Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS)? Describe it in your own words. 4) What is Cystic Fibrosis? Describe it in your own words.

Go to: http://www.open2.net/everwonderedfood/interactives/digest.html

 Go to the orange picture. “Explore the Digestive System” – go through this tour and make sure to answer the trivia questions

5. How much saliva do you swallow a day? 6. How long does solid food take to reach the stomach from the esophagus? 7. Acids are measured from 1-14 on a pH scale. One is the most acidic. How acidic is the acid in your stomach? 8. Which of the three foods (pasta, bread or sausage) stays in your stomach the longest? Why? 9. How long is the small intestine? 10. How big is the surface area of the small intestine? 11. How long do you think it can take food to travel the length of the large intestine?

Go to: http://yucky.discovery.com/flash/body/pg000126.html

 Use the drop down menu at the top of the screen: “Pick a Body Function”. You will need to choose belches and farts and vomit to answer the following questions:

12. What are belches and farts? 13. Where do farts come from? 14. Where do the gasses go? 15. How much gas do you have? 16. Why do we vomit? 17. Why is vomit green?