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Digestive system
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- 1It is where digestion starts. It contains the teeth and the tongue.Mouth
- 2They are in the mouth and cut and crush the food to make it smaller.Teeth
- 3It is in the mouth and mixes the food with saliva.Tongue
- 4They produce saliva.Salivary glands
- 5It connects the mouth to the esophagus.Pharynx
- 6It is a long and flexible tube that contracts and relaxes to get food from the pharynx to the stomach.Esophagus
- 7It is a bag-shaped organ that produces gastric juices to break down food into nutrients.Stomach
- 8It is a long, thin tube that produces intestinal juices. It is where the absorption of nutrients takes place.Small intestine
- 9They are the three parts in the small intestine.Duodenum, illeum and jejunum
- 10It is a thick tube that absorbs water and produces feces with waste substances.Large intestine
- 11They are the tree parts in the large intestine.Colon, rectum and anus
- 12It is a gland that produces bile.Liver
- 13It stores the bile.Gall bladder
- 14It produces pancreatic juice.Pancreas
- 15It is a soft ball formed when food is mixed with saliva in the mouth.Bolus
- 16It is a thick paste formed when the bolus is mixed with gastric juices in the stomach.Chyme
- 17It is a thin paste formed when the chyme is mixed with pancreatic juice, intestinal juice and bile in the small intestine.Chyle
- 18They are waste substances remaining after digestion and absorption. They are expelled through the anus.Feces
- 19It is a process by which the food is broken down into nutrients.Digestion
- 20It is a process by which the nutrients go pass from the digestive system into the blood.Absorption
- 21It is a process by which waste substances are expelled from the body.Elimination
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- Primero Ciencias Naturales Flashcards on Digestive system, created by Beatriz Cánovas on 12/03/2020.
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