The Digestive System Components Esophagus Stomach Small Intestine
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The Digestive System
Components • • Esophagus Stomach Small Intestine Large Intestine Gall bladder Liver Pancreas
Esophagus • the tube that connects your mouth and your stomach
Stomach • A stretchy bag that holds your food after you eat • Helps to break food into smaller pieces so your body can use it for energy and nutrition
Esophagus Stomach
Small Intestine • Tube that is 20 feet long. • Continues to digest and absorb food • Food stays in your small intestine for 4 to 8 hours
Small Intestine
Large Intestine • Tube that is 5 feet long • Gets waste from small intestine • It absorbs water from the undigested food • Waste stays for 10 to 12 hours
Large Intestine
Gall Bladder • Storage tank for bile (a greenishyellow liquid) that helps your body break down and use fats • Located under your liver • Shaped like a pear
Gall Bladder
Liver • Factory for antibodies and bile • Stores vitamins and sugars until your body needs them • produce substances that break down fats • convert glucose to glycogen, produce urea (the main substance of urine) • filter harmful substances from the blood (such as alcohol),
Liver
Pancreas • Helps you digest food by breaking down sugars
Functions • Digest the food we eat • Take the nutrients out of your food so your body can use it
Healthy Habits • Eat foods that are high in fiber like fruits and vegetables
• Drink plenty of water
• Chew your food completely before you swallow
Avoid foods high in fat
Interesting Facts • Food is in your digestive system for about 24 hours
• Your stomach stretches when you eat like a balloon being filled with air
• You have a trap door called the epiglottis to cover your windpipe when you swallow.
• Your stomach mashes your food the way a baker kneads dough for bread.
Summary Functions • Digests food • Absorbs nutrients for the body • • Components Esophagus Stomach Small intestine Large intestine Pancreas Liver Gall Bladder
Summary Healthy Habits • • Eat high fiber foods Drink lots of water Chew food well Avoid high-fat foods
Label Parts of the digestive system
Human Digestive Sytem 1. Draw and label the human digestive system 2. Write a poem or letter about the digestive system You must include the whole process or stage You must include these parts • Esophagus, Stomach • Small intestine, Large intestine • Pancreas, Liver • Gall Bladder 5. Work must be well decorated, colorful and presentable
Describe the pathway hamburger will follow as it goes down your digestive tract
Works Cited • Microsoft Clip. Art • Microsoft Encarta Encyclopedia • My Body: Teacher Created Materials
- Esophagus stomach small intestine large intestine
- Function of duodenum
- List of enzymes and their functions
- Digestive system for labelling
- Esophagus and stomach junction histology
- Diagram of stomach
- Alimentary canal
- Digestive system enzymes chart
- Human intestine
- Large intestine function in digestive system
- Mash, grind, mix and tear food.
- Small intestine extends from
- Small intestine gangrene
- Laparoyomy
- Peristalsis
- Digestion begins in the when you chew and swallow
- Git layers
- Is the small intestine a physical or chemical change
- Arterial supply of small intestine
- Relations of small intestine
- Dorsal and ventral side
- Digestion prefix
- Frogs body parts and functions
- Intestinal villus
- Galt
- Parts of small intestine
- Small intestine villi function
- Small intestine peristalsis
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- Lamina basal tejido epitelial
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