The 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.

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 the nutrients and minerals from the food we consume.

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

• Absorbs none of the food that's left from the digestion process.

Label the liver

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7

3

10

4

Match the following

• storage for bile

• amylase

• Finger like projections in sm intestine

• Villi

• Mechanically and Chemically digests food

• Small intestine

• Absorbs nutrients from chyme

• Stomach

• enzyme in saliva that begins digestion

• Gallbladder

Label the Esophagus

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1

3

5

2

What is the name of the acid that is produced by the stomach to help with digestion?

___________ is the muscle movement of the esophagus and small intestine that keeps food moving in wave-like contractions

The large intestine is also known as the:

• anus

• colon

• pyloric sphincter

• Gallbladder

The sphincter that allows food to exit the stomach and enter the small intestine