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13 Cards in this Set
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Digestive System
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-changes the food you eat into a usable energy source for your cells.
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Digestion
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-process that turns food into energy for your tissues and cells.
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Nutrients
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-tiny food particles used by your cells.
-food you put into your body is converted into nutrients by physical and chemical means. |
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Saliva
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-made by glands located beneath your tongue.
-helps you chew and makes it easier for the chewed food to slide down your throat. -changes food chemically |
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Enzymes
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-proteins in your body that speed up the rate of reactions.
-act like scissors and cut apart food molecules to make them smaller |
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Espophagus
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-strong, muscular tube that connects your mouth to your stomach
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Stomach
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-food arrives in this hollow organ after leaving the esophagus
-Has wrinkled lining and muscular walls -contracts and begins to churn the food |
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Small Intestine
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-long, tube-like digestive organ
-food enters the small intestine from the stomach |
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Duodenum
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-area of the small intestine in which food enters from the stomach
--top part of the small intestine |
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Villi
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-finger-like projections on the inside wall of the small intestine
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Large intestine
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-the tubelike organ after the small intestine that completes teh digestive process
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Colon
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-the lower part of the larg intestine where waste material is stored.
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Feces
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-the solid waste product of digestion
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