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 are 2 MOST important organs of the digestive system?

• small intestines

• esophagus

• large intestines

• pharynx

Chewing, grinding, and churning are examples of...

• mechanical digestion
• chemical digestion

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

What stores bile?

• Colon
• Gall Bladder
• Small Intestine

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

• Mechanical digestion
• Chemical digestion

• stomach
• pancreas
• large intestine
• small intestine

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• esophagus
• liver
• stomach
• pancreas

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A fluid in the mouth that helps digest food.

• pepsin
• pepsi
• saliva
• salty

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