The Digestive System Flashcards
1
Q
what’s digestion?
A
It is the process that your body uses to break large food molecules into smaller molecules.
2
Q
What does your body use molecules for?
A
For fuel.
3
Q
What does Enzymes mean?
A
A chemical that helps to speed up the process of digestion.
4
Q
What does the stomach break down?
A
Proteins
5
Q
When you eat food where does it go?
A
The small intestine and the Pancreas and the liver.
6
Q
What does the Pancreas do?
A
Produces fluids that neutralizes the acid arriving from the stomach.
7
Q
As food passes through the several meters of small intestine what happens?
A
Digestion is completed.
8
Q
What happens when food passes down?
A
Digestion is complete and the nutrients is are absorbed.
