Digestive System

What is the digestive system?

• A system to take out the bad stuff that's in your body

• A system where a certain group of organs work together to convert food into energy to feed the body

• A system where certain organs in the body digest the food you eat

• A system that the organs in the stomach make food for the body to digest.

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Where does the digestive system start?

• The liver

• The throat

• The stomach

• The mouth

What does the small intestine do?

• reabsorbs the water after the process of the system.

• Absorbs most of the end of the nutrients and minerals from where the food takes place.

• keeps the stomach in balance for when the system starts.

• Absorbs most of the food that's left from the process.

What does the large intestine do?

• digest the food from this process

• makes a pathway for the food

• reabsorb a lot of the water from this process

• absorbs the food from this process

The process by which the body breaks down food so that it can be used for energy.

• composition
• digestion
• deposition
• absorption

A fluid in the mouth that helps digest food.

• pepsin
• pepsi
• saliva
• salty

The chewing and grinding of food into smaller pieces is an example of...

• Mechanical Digestion
• Chemical Digestion

Gastric juices in the stomach digest food into a thick liquid.  This is...

• Mechanical digestion
• Chemical digestion

Where does digestion begin?

• Our teeth

• Our stomach

• The esophogus

• Small intestines

What is the definition for digestion?

• Breaking down food into smaller nutrients
• Getting rid of waste products
• Getting food into our bodies
• Getting nutrients into our bloodstream, so that our cells can use them