Brock & Cole

THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

BODY ORGANS • Mouth• Tongue• Teeth• Pharynx and Esophagus• Stomach• Small Intestine• Large Intestine• Anus

Acids and enzymes eat away at the food to break it down.

Important to Body

HOW IT WORKS

Once the food is in the blood it can travel though your body.

INTERESTING FACTS

• The digestive system starts in the mouth.

• The anus does the job of ejecting the waste matter from the body.

• There are many enzymes involved in digestion.• An adults stomach has capacity to hold around

1.5 liters of food.• http://www.neok12.com/php/watch.php?v=zX680f4e7e6e7c420f746402&t=Digestive-System

• http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/digestive_system.html

• http://www.imcpl.org/kids/blog/?p=12436

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