The Digestive System Flashcards
What is the function of the digestive system?
To beak down the food you eat into particles the body uses for nutrition
What is the first process of the digestive system?
It begins in the mouth where food is chewed into smaller pieces. While in the mouth, the food is broken down further by saliva, which is produced by the salivary glands.
Where does the food go next when we chew it?
The partially digested food then travels down a muscular tube called the oesophagi into the stomach. Ye stomach churns the food and produced acid that helps in digestion.
Where does the food go after going into the stomach?
The food then enters the small intestine. The enzymes form the pancreas as well as biles made by the liver and stored in the gall bladder, are added to further digest food into very small particles.
Where does some of the food particles go?
The food particles pass through the walls of the small intestine and enter the blood stream where they provide nutrition for the body.
Where does the indigent we food go?
It tracked down the small intestine into the large intestine.
The large intestine absorbs most of the remaining water. The material left over….
Is called faeces, leaves the body through the anus.
the digestive path…
the digestion process starts in the mouth, where you chew, and saliva helps to start to break down your food. The partially chewed food then travels down the oesophagus and into the stomach, which churns the food and further breaks it down with acids. It then travels down to the small intestine, where the pancreas and the liver help break it down to even smaller particles, which pass through the walls of the small intestine. the rest of the undigested food
