PRESENTATION OUTLINE
DIGESTIVE SYSTEM (ORGANS)
MOUTH AND SALIVA
- This is where the food comes in to the body and where chemical and mechanical breakdown start
ESOPHAGUS
- A long tube where food travels into the stomach
STOMACH
- A muscle like sac where chemical and mechanical breakdown occurs.
SMALL INTESTINE
- An 7 yard long hollow muscle tube where the energy is sucked out of the digested food
LARGE INTESTINE
- A thicker and shorter hollow muscle tube that sucks the water out of the remains of the digested food.
LIVER
- An accessory organ; creates bile
GALLBLADDER
- An accessory organ; stores bile
PANCREAS
- An accessory organ; creates digestive enzymes
RECTUM
- A storage sac that stores undigested food before it is eliminated from the body
