fun facts on digestion
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Fun Facts on Digestion. Stomach growling??? – Intestines contracting. Burping or a “little flatulence”??? – trapped gas and air from bacteria. Every person eats @3lbs of food / day – 1095 lbs of food / year!!!!! Entire digestive system is 30 ft long!!! You produce 1 qt of saliva / day!!!. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Fun Facts on DigestionStomach growling??? Intestines contracting.Burping or a little flatulence??? trapped gas and air from bacteria.Every person eats @3lbs of food / day 1095 lbs of food / year!!!!!Entire digestive system is 30 ft long!!!You produce 1 qt of saliva / day!!!
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Chewing your cud How many stomachs does a cow have????4 !!!!
What organ is attached to your large intestines and has no known purpose???
Your appendix
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Digestive SystemDigestion the chemical and mechanical breaking down of food into something the cells can use.Kidshealth
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Major Organs & FunctionsMouthEsophagusStomachSmall IntestinesLarge Intestines / colonRectum & Anus
LiverGall BladderPancreas
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Mouth Beginning of digestion.Mechanical Digestion begins with tongue and teeth. MOST mechanical digestion takes place here.Chemical Digestion begins with saliva breaking down starch to sugar.Saltine Crackers
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Epiglottis flap of cartilagecloses trachea (windpipe) when swallowingfood travels down esophagusPeristalsis involuntary muscle contractions to move food along
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Esophagus - carries chewed food to the stomach. *Peristalsis muscle contractions that push the food down the tube. stomach - secrete HCl (hydrochloric acid) & pepsin to help with chemical digestion.
Mechanical digestion also takes place here with the churning.
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Liver - have over 500 functions!!! - produces bile to help digestion fat.gall bladder - storage tank for the bile.Pancreas - secretes enzymes to help break down food in the sm. intestines
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small intestine-
Food enters here AFTER the stomach.
MOST of the chemical digestion takes place / the pancreas and gall bladder secrete chemicals
Nutrients are absorbed here into your blood.
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Villi Found in small intestines to absorb nutrients and water.
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large intestines / colon. Water is absorbed here & enters the bloodstream. The remaining is prepared to leave the body as waste.rectum and anus a short tube and opening where solid waste is stored and eliminated from the body.
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Interactive
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Which type of digestion is the following? Chewing a saltine? -
2. Saliva breaking the saltine down into molecules of glucose? -
3. Your tongue breaking pieces of a hamburger apart?
4. Pepsin (an enzyme) & HCl in your stomach breaking the hamburger into amino acids?
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Journey Thru the Digestive System Of a Toddler
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21 Minutes
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