 | Term | Definition |
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digestive system |
where you body breaks down food to get the nutrients and vitamins your cells need for energy |
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esophagus |
(throat) is where the food passes from your mouth to your stomach |
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small and large intestines |
continue to bread down food and pass the wastes |
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teeth |
break food into samller pieces |
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glands |
in you rmouth produce saliva to moisten food |
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esophagus |
(throat) is where the food passes from your mouth to your stomach |
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stomach |
break down food even more |
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small intestines |
where the digestion of food into nutirents is completed |
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large intestines |
have undigested food and wastes |
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excretion |
wastes are removed from the body |
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salvia |
moistens food and begins to break down starchy foods such as pasta into sugars |
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bile |
breaks down fats into smaller particles that can be more eaisly digested |
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pancreas |
produces a fuluid that neutralizes stomaic acid and chemicals that help finish digestion |
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villi |
nutrients pass through and projections that sticking out of the walls of the small intestine into the blood |
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liver |
"produces bile, which is stored in the gallbladder" |
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