the Digestive System

Question 0

Mouth

Answer 0

Food breaks down from enzymes in saliva and chewing food with teeth

Question 1

Function of the digestive system

Answer 1

The digestive system breaks down carbs, proteins, and fats into tiny pieces that can leak out of your intestine and into the blood vessels

Question 2

Stomach

Answer 2

Food churns with acid, becomes a substance similar to playdoh

Question 3

Small intestine

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Nutrients are absorbed by blood vessels

Question 4

Large intestine

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Reabsorbs water

Question 5

Excretion

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Waste exits the body

Question 6

Liver

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Produces bile to break down fats

Question 7

Gall bladder

Answer 7

Stores bile the liver produces, bile from here goes into small intestine

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Pancreas

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Makes insulin, insulin goes into small intestine

Question 9

Epiglottis

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Flap of skin that covers the trachea when food needs to go down

Question 10

Esophagus

Answer 10

Tube that food goes down from mouth to stomach

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Salivary gland

Answer 11

Produces enzymes in saliva that help to break down food in mouth

Question 12

Appendix

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Unnecessary, is located at end of small intestine, beginning of large intestine

Question 13

Bile duct

Answer 13

Entrance to small intestine from gall bladder is the bile duct

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Peristalsis

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A muscular movement that moves food down the esophagus

Question 15

Rectum

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Where waste is removed

Question 16

Bile

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Breaks down fats. Is stored in the gall bladder and enters the small intestine along the bile duct

Question 17

Villi

Answer 17

Small, finger like projections off the small intestine to increase surface area for absorption