THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

Paulo Aviles

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Digestive System

Breaks down food

Take away dirt from your body.

Digest food

Takes 3 hours to munch food

Gives the body energy

Mouth

What the mouth does is it chews the food before digesting.

To eat food.

Esophagus

It connects the mouth to the stomach.

It leads the food we swallow in our stomach.

Stomach

A sack like organ in charge of processing food.

It dissolves the food.

Small Intestine Digest protein and

carbohydrate in foods you eat.

It is more than 6 meters long

Located within the middle of the abdomen.

Anus A small opening

where your waste comes out.

A 2 inch tube.

Rectum The last 6-8 inches

of the large intestine.

The rectum stores solid waste until it leaves the body.

Pancreas A fish-shaped

spongy greyish-pink organ

About 6 inches long

Stretches across the back of the abdomen.

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