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More About the Digestive System

In the stomach, stomach acid breaks food down into even smaller pieces. Then it travels into the small intestine where other organs (the liver and pancreas) work to help break down the food even more.

1 Name the liquid produced by the liver that helps digestion.

The digestive liquid produced by the liver is .

ResearchFind out more about the liver, gallbladder and pancreas. Look in books, online or speak to an expert.

Write a paragraph about what you have found out.

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Modelling Digestion

1 After you have carried out the Ready, steady, digest! activity in your topic book, draw and label a cartoon strip to show what you did to model each of these stages.

1 Mouth

2 Stomach 3 Small intestine

4 Large intestine 5 Rectum

2 Which part of the process is missing?

3 How could the modelling process be improved?

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