CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY SCIENCE 5 TEACHER’S RESOURCE

Challenge 2 a Part Function

5 a It has dissolved. oesophagus A Pushes food into the
stomach
b Taste it/evaporate the water.
Stomach B Mixes food with
c Water is the solvent.
digestive juices
d Sugar is the solute. Large C Absorbs water and
6 intestine some minerals into the
blood
Mouth D Chews food and
starts digestion
Anus E Removes undigested
food from the body
water
Small F Breaks food down
sugar intestine into very tiny particles

b D → A → B → F→ C→ E
7
Practice
3 Funnel – mouth
sugar
water Finger of rubber glove – oesophagus
Balloon – stomach
Plastic pipe – small intestine
Pantyhose (tights) – large intestine
Open end – anus

Unit 4 The digestive 4 Make the small intestine and large intestine
longer.

system Challenge
5 Does saliva break down starch in the mouth?
4.1 Parts and functions of the (or similar question).
digestive system
6 a
Focus
1
beaker
mouth water saliva

oesophagus
rice coloured blue-black

stomach small intestine

b The starch in the rice changed the colour
of the iodine solution to blue-black in
large intestine both beakers.

anus 7 To test whether saliva breaks down the starch

in the rice.
8 To allow time for the saliva to act on the
starch in the rice and break it down.

8 Cambridge Primary Science 5 – Fiona Baxter & Liz Dilley © Cambridge University Press 2021