Organs
What is the small intestine?
A place where fat is stored
What is stomach?
This is the J shaped pouch that churns and squeezes food.
What is water/liquids?
This is absorbed by the large intestine
What is the liver?
This organ adds digestive juices to the small intestine to help break down food. Hint-starts with the letter that comes before "m" in the alphabet.
What is the large intestine?
This organ is only about 5 ft long.
What is saliva?
What is saliva?This is the liquid in the mouth that helps break down food
What is digestion?
This is the process that breaks food into small pieces so the body can use it.
What gets churned/ mixed/squeezed?
Is is what happens to food while in the stomach.
Unused food leaves the body and is called__________.
waste
What is the path that food takes through the digestive system?
The digestive track
True or False: food material passed through the pancreas just before reaching the stomach.
false
What is large intestine?
The place where water is removed from the waste.
The digestive system is a ____________about 21-30 foot long.
tube
The ____________________produce saliva used to moisten your mouth.
salivary glands
After leaving the esophagus, food travels here.
the stomach
What is the epiglottis?
What is the epiglottis?This is what blocks off the windpipe so food cannot get into it
What is the esophagus?
This is the tube food slides down before going to the stomach the esophagus?
What is food?
What is food?The body must have this to live.
What is the small intestine?
This organ makes up 2/3 of the digestive system
teeth take bite of food , saliva is added and you chew, you swallow and food goes down esophagus, into the ___________, then your______________, finally into your _________________
stomach, small intestine, large intestine?
What are pancreas and liver?
These are two organs that pour juices into the small intestine.
true or false-- Digestion starts in your mouth
true
What is the length of the small intestine?
The length of this organ is about 22ft long.
What are things that keep your digestive system healthy? Eating healthy, exercising, take care of teeth, or drinking water?
Eating healthy, take care of teeth.
What are the mouth, stomach, small intestine, and large intestine?
These are the four main parts of the digestive system.