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Where digestion begins
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Mouth
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Produce juices in the mouth (secrete juices into the mouth)
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Salivary glands
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Breaks, grinds food into pieces (hold, tear and chew foods)
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Teeth
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Moves food mass in small, soft bal to the read of the mouth where it is swallowed
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Tongue
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Food passageway between mouth and stomach
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Esophagus
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Churns food, adds juices (receives food, churns it, and adds gastric juices to it
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Stomach
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Makes bile (produces digestive juice called bile)
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Liver
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Stores bile (stores bile until needed for digestion)
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Gall bladder
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Produces digestive juices to further break down food in digestion
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Pancreas
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Absorbs food, sends it throughout body (absorbs useable food substances which are sent to all body parts by blood vessels)
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Small intestine
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Tiny, finger-like projections found in small intestine
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Villi
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Water removed, solids stored (stores unused solid substances after water is removed)
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Large intestine
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Holds solid waste and controls its release from body
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Rectum
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What is the body’s fuel?
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Food is the body’s fuel.
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Where is the food changed to fuel?
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Food is changed into fuel in the digestive system. This is called digestion.
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