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The Digestive System
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Mouth
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Mouth
  • The tongue has a lot of  taste buds, sour buds, sweet buds, salt buds, bitter buds and many more.
  • If you don’t brush your teeth you can get a cavity. The things that hold your teeth together are called gums.
  • The mouth  is the beginning of  digestion.
  • The saliva that is in your mouth helps break down food.
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Mouth
  • Food leaves the mouth and enters the esophagus.
  • The epiglottis is a door that opens for your food that leads to the esophagus.
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Esophagus
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Esophagus
  • Your esophagus is a tube that leads to your stomach
  • The food travels 10 inches to the stomach
  • The esophagus is below the throat and above the stomach
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Esophagus
  • When you swallow food, muscles push it to your stomach
  • When you breath sometimes it comes up as a burp
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STOMACH
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STOMACH
  • When you are full your stomach tells your brain “I am full”.
  •  When your stomach is empty it tells your brain “I am hungry send down food”.
  • The stomach is like a bag of muscles.
  •  Your stomach is shaped like the letter J .
  • The chewed up food you eat no longer looks like food or other things.
  • Food must be broken down so that it’s nutrients can go into your body.
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STOMACH
  • Muscles churn food to mix with digestive juices.
  • In your stomach the food mixes with gastric juices.
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Small Intestine
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Small intestine
  • The intestine 20 ft or 6ms long.
  • Muscles create waves in the wall of the tube.
  • Juices in the intestine finishes the job of digesting food.
  • Food particles leave the intestine into blood vessels.
  • Blood vessels carry cells throughout the tiny particles.
  • This energy keeps us alive.
  • By the time the liquid gets to the end of the intestine most foods that can be digested has been removed.
  • The remaining waste has moved to large intestine.
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Small Intestine
  •  The small Intestine finishes the job of digesting.
  • The small intestine is a long tube of muscle and other tissues.
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Large Intestine
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Large Intestine
  • The large Intestine has muscles.
  • The muscles move the waste along.
  • It also keeps water.
  • The large intestine in most adults is 5feet long.
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Large Intestine
  • It  is also called the colon.
  • It has the Appendix and cecum.
  • Next the waste enters the rectum and leaves through the anus.
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The Liver
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The Liver
  • The liver is a very important part of your body.
  • It’s color is reddish brown.
  • The liver  also makes a substance called bile.
  • The liver is located above the stomach.
  • The liver weighs 1.5 kg.
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The Liver
  • The liver sends juices to your small intestine.
  • It also is an organ in your body.
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Gall Bladder
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Gall Bladder
  • The gall bladder is near the stomach.
  • The gall bladder is attached to the liver.
  • The gall bladder is connected to the bile duct.
  • The gall bladder sends bile to the small intestine.
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Gall Bladder
  • Bile is a greenish-brown fluid that is in the gall bladder.
  • The gall bladder stores bile until the digestive system needs it.
  • The gall bladder helps digest fats.
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Pancreas
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Pancreas
  • The pancreas makes insulin.
  • The pancreas gives off digestive juices.
  • The pancreas is near the stomach.
  • It sends a juice into the small intestine to help digestion.
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Pancreas

  • The pancreas is a long, flat gland.
  • The pancreas has a long, slender tail and a wider head.
  • The pancreas also makes glucagons.
  • Glucose is a type of sugar.
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             THE END
  • Now I hoped you learned about the digestive system !