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| These secrete digestive enzymes to begin the digestive process in the mouth. |
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| This moves the food into the stomach. |
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| This is an important warehouse for the body's nutrients. |
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| This secretes juices that continue to break food particles down after they have passed through the esophagus. |
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| This organ is where bile is stored. |
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| This secretes juices that help the digestion of food in the small intestine. It also secretes insulin, an important hormone that regulates glucose levels in the blood. |
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| In this organ, the body chemicals act with food and nutrients, which are absorbed into the blood. |
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| In this organ, leftover food that is of no use to the body is processed for elimination |
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| This substance is stored in the gall bladder. |
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| These proteins help to break down food. In the mouth, these are secreted by the salivary glands. |
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| The esophagus moves food into what organ in the digestive system? |
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| This organ secretes insulin |
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| Saliva in your mouth contains enzymes that break down starch and turn it into this. |
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| This is how long a meal stays in your stomach. |
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| This is how long it takes for food you eat to pass through your body |
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| This is what food supplies to power your body. |
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| This is also called the food tube. |
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| What stomach muscles do in order to break down food. |
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| The type of acid that is found in the stomach. |
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| The lining that prevents hydrochloric acid in the stomach from eating through the stomach wall. |
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| with the eyes and nose when we see and smell food |
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| Where does digestion start? (trick question!) |
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7 meters for an adult
4 meters for a kid |
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| How long is the small intestine? |
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| How long is the large intestine? |
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| How much saliva do you make every day? |
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| This valve allows chyme to move from the stomach to the small intestines. |
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| This is what is left over after your body has squeezed all of the nutrients from the foods you eat. |
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| The type of digestion in which food is chewed, mixed, and churned |
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| The type of digestion in which chemical reactions break down food |
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| This is the name for the process by which food is broken down into small molecules that can be absorbed by the blood |
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| These are a type of protein that speeds up the rate of chemical reaction in your body |
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| tongue, teeth, salivary glands, pancreas, liver, and gall bladder |
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| What are the "accessory" organs in the digestive system? Food never actually passes through these organs. |
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| mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine |
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| While being digested food travels through these five organs. |
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| This term refers to waves of muscle contractions in the body. In the digestive system, this process causes food to break down. |
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| Food is converted into this thin, watery liquid after being broken down in the stomach. |
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| These tiny wormlike processes on the mucous membrane of the small intestine, serve in absorbing nutriment. |
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| The large intestine absorbs this substance from undigested chyme. |
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