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SCIENCE - DIGESTIVE SYSTEM Flashcards

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Food is used for ….

A

Energy
Repair
Growth

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Digest

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Break down large food particles to smaller particles

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Ingestion

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Taking in food ( eating )

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Digestion

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Breaking down food

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Absorption

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Food passing into blood ( delivering to cells )

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Assimilation

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Food put use by the cells.

not done by the digestive system

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Egestion

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Passing any unabsorbed food

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Mouth

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Take and crush food

Adds amylase to food

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Oesophagus

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Carries food down to the stomach

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Stomach

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Churns food

Adds acid to the food

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Small intestine

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Further digestion

Digested food is absorbed into the blood

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Large intestine

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Water is absorbed into the blood

Waste left to be prepared for egestion

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Salivary glands

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Makes saliva

Saliva contains enzyme,amylase that breaks down food

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Liver

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Produces liquid bile
Bile helps to digest fat
Regulates amount of each food in blood

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Gall bladder

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Stores Nile until it’s needed

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Pancréas

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Makes enzymes to break down food

16
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Amylase

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An enzyme that breaks starch down to a sugar - maltose

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Enzyme

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Chemical found in living organisms which speeds up chemical reaction

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Peristalsis

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Muscular movements in digestive system to help to push food through the system along

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Enzymes

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Not used in a reaction - catalyst

Chemical reaction that happens in living organisms is called a biochemical reaction

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Starch to glucose process

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Starch - maltose - glucose

  • amylase
  • maltase
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Mouth and salivary glands

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Salivary glands produce enzyme amylase passed through tiny tubes to the mouth

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Liver and Gall Bladder

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Liver produces bile and is passed i through the bile duct to the gall bladder ( where it will store the bile until it is needed to digest fat )

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Pancreas and Small Intestine

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Pancreas produces enzymes which is passed through pancreatic duct to the small intestine for digestion

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