Diestion Flashcards
The mouth is made up of??
Teeth and tongue and saliva
The scientific name of food pipe is??
Oesophagus
The food absorb through your??
Small intestine
Putting food in your mouth is called??
Ingestion
Water I removed through??
Large intestine
A process that turns the large insoluble pieces of food into small and soluble pieces??
Digestion
Cannot be dissolved in water??
Insoluble
Can be dissolved in water??
Soluble
Putting food in your mouth??
Ingestion
A process that feaces are pushed out of the anus??
Egestion or elimination
The mouth’s function??
Grind food into small and soluble pieces
The function of gullet:food pipe:oesophagus
Pushes food towards the stomach
The function of the stomach??
Food is churned up with acid and more digestive juicea
Gut??
A tube made up of different organs
Salivary glands function??
Produces saliva to digest food/makes food easier to swallow
Tongue function??
Mixed food with saliva
What is oesophagus??
Is a tube which is made up of muscles
The main parts of the digestive system??
Gut/tubes/digestive glands
Small intestine??
1) digest all types of nutrients completely(carbohydrates,protein,fat)
2) absorb the digested food into the blood
Large intestine??
1)passes the undigested food like fiberes
2)absorb water directly
3)forms faeces
4)rectum:stores faeces
Anus:makes elimination or egestion process(pushes faeces out of the anus
Digestive juice(saliva)
1) Helps digest food
2) It also makes food easier to swallow
