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The Digestive System
By: Keesha Catalan
Mouth
 The mouth chews up the food in your
mouth into tiny little pieces. Then it sends
it down your esophagus.
Esophagus
 The esophagus is a long tube that allows
food to go down to the small intestine.
Stomach
 The stomach breaks down the food. The
it sends it to the small intestine.
Small intestine
 The small intestine does most of the
digesting of the food that you eat. Then it
sends it down to the large intestine.
Large intestine
 The large intestine absorbs the water
from the indigestible food and transmit
the useless waste material from the body.
Liver
 The liver cleans your blood, it makes a
digestive liquid called bile, and it stores an
energy called glycogen.
Appendix
 The appendix produces and protects
good germs for the guts by rebooting the
digestive system.
Pancreas
 The pancreas produces enzymes and
hormones that help break down foods.
Gall Bladder
 The gall bladder is responsible to digest
the fats in the foods.
Enzymes
 The enzymes helps us in breaking of
different minerals.
Bile / Bile Duct
 Bile is a digestive juice secreted by the
liver and it is stored in the gallbladder
and aids the digestions of fat.
Mucus
 Mucus basically keeps everything gliding
along.
Chemical digestion
 Chemical digestion has a chemical that
breaks down food into simpler
compound.
Mechanical digestion
 Mechanical has a chemical using a
chemical to digest and/or break down
food.
Salivary amylase
 Amylase is an enzyme that breaks down
carbohydrates. It is naturally found in
your saliva.
Absorption
 Absorption transfers the nutrients into the
blood stream.
Villi
 Villi is the wall of the small intestines.
Gastric juices
 Gastric juices break down food and
dissolve the nutrients in the food.
Duodenum
 Duodenum releases chyle or chyme that
commences the acid soup mix.
Chyme
 Chyme is the mix of food and digestive
fluids.
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