Digestive System 23-24

Muscular bag that stores the food that you eat and breaks it down into tiny pieces. Also contains acid which helps to kill bacteria on the food you eat.

• stomach

• gallbladder

• liver

• small intestine

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Stores bile & releases it into the small intestine. If you have a fatty diet, then you might find stones here

• gallbladder

• liver

• pancreas

• stomach

Mechanically breaks down food into small pieces & your epiglottis is here so to prevent food from going down your trachea

• mouth

• small intestine

• esophagus

• pancreas

Creates bile while filtering out toxins and wastes including drugs, alcohol, and poisons

• liver

• small intestine

• pancreas

• gallbladder

Produces digestive enzymes to digest fats, carbohydrates, and proteins. Also regulates blood sugar by producing insulin

• pancreas

• large intestine

• esophagus

• liver

Once food enters here, the majority of nutrients from the food get absorbed into the bloodstream through the walls of this structure (w/ help from small fingerlike projections called villi). This structure also secretes digestive enzymes.

• small intestine

• large intestine

• epiglottis

• pancreas

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-7

This structure absorbs the majority of water, concentrates waste, and stores it until it is ready to be expelled. Also absorbs any remaining nutrients.

• large intestine

• liver

• small intestine

• stomach

Moves food from the throat to the stomach using a muscle movement called peristalsis.

• esophagus

• large intestine

• gallbladder

• small intestine

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• mouth

• stomach

• large intestine

• esophagus

• small intestine

C?

• mouth

• pancreas

• esophagus

• rectum