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The human body – practice for Years 4–5

Sample questions on The human body with the right answer and a worked solution, from easy to hard. In the Pickles Academy app a child gets new questions of the same kind every time, so they can't just learn the answers by heart.

Subject
Science
Year
Years 4–5
Curriculum area
People and health

Question types: Match the organ to its job · Put in order

Rule: The human body

The heart pumps blood round the whole body. In the lungs the blood takes in oxygen and gives off carbon dioxide.

The brain controls the body. The stomach and intestines digest food. The skeleton supports the body, muscles move it.

Arteries carry blood away from the heart, veins carry it back to the heart.

Example: The path of food: mouth → gullet → stomach → small intestine → large intestine.

Watch out: Air doesn’t go to the stomach: it goes through the nose and windpipe to the lungs, food goes down the gullet.

Sample questions

  1. Question 1 Easy

    What do these parts of the human body do? Match each item (1–3) with the right option (A–D).

    1. kidneys
    2. lungs
    3. stomach
    • A) digests food
    • B) protects the body from the outside
    • C) breathing, take in oxygen
    • D) clean the blood and make urine
    Show the solution
    Answer:
    1. kidneys → D) clean the blood and make urine
    2. lungs → C) breathing, take in oxygen
    3. stomach → A) digests food

    How it works: kidneys – clean the blood and make urine; lungs – breathing, take in oxygen; stomach – digests food

  2. Question 2 Normal

    Put in order the way the air we breathe in flows to the lungs.

    • A) bronchi
    • B) throat (pharynx)
    • C) voice box (larynx)
    • D) air sacs (alveoli)
    Show the solution
    Answer:
    1. throat (pharynx)
    2. voice box (larynx)
    3. bronchi
    4. air sacs (alveoli)

    How it works: 1. throat (pharynx) 2. voice box (larynx) 3. bronchi 4. air sacs (alveoli)

  3. Question 3 Hard

    What do these parts of the human body do? Match each item (1–5) with the right option (A–F).

    1. kidneys
    2. lungs
    3. stomach
    4. skin
    5. brain
    • A) breathing, take in oxygen
    • B) protects the body from the outside
    • C) controls the whole body
    • D) bite and chew food
    • E) digests food
    • F) clean the blood and make urine
    Show the solution
    Answer:
    1. kidneys → F) clean the blood and make urine
    2. lungs → A) breathing, take in oxygen
    3. stomach → E) digests food
    4. skin → B) protects the body from the outside
    5. brain → C) controls the whole body

    How it works: kidneys – clean the blood and make urine; lungs – breathing, take in oxygen; stomach – digests food; skin – protects the body from the outside; brain – controls the whole body

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