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Teeth
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They grind the food into small bits to be swallowed.
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Tongue
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Moves food around in your mouth.
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Palate
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Blocks food from getting to the nose.(hard in front soft in back)
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Salivary glands
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Produces saliva to moisten the food (responds to smell/taste sensee)
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Pharynx
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"branched" tube that squeezes to move food to the esophagus.
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Esophagus
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"pipe" to the stomach
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Stomach
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Where most of the digestion takes place.
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Small intestine
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A tube to the largeintestine.
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Large intestine
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Comprised of: colon, cecum, and rectum
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Gall bladder
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Sends bile and other digestive chemicals to small intestine.
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Pancreas
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Sends other diegestive chemicals to small intestine.
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Liver
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Warms blood. detoxes blood. makes bile. stores extra monasacarhides.
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Appendix
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A worm shaped tube. we don't know what it does.
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Rectum
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Where the food is prepared to leave the body. last part of the large intestine.
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Anus
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Where the food leaves the body.
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