DIGESTIVE SYSTEM

MOUTH

• Teeth
• Tongue
• Saliva
• Breaks down food into smaller-
• Pieces and saliva moistens it.

ESOPHAGUS

• Hollow muscular tube
• Contracts and sends food to the stomach

STOMACH

• Hollow muscular pouch
• Uses muscles, acids and other chemicals-
• To break food into smaller peices

SMALL INTESTINE

• Tube lined with villi
• Absorbs nuteients into the blood-
• And chemically digests food
• *Most digestion occurs here*

LIVER

• Large, heavy triangular shaped organ
• Aids in digestion by producing chemicals-
• That break down food.

LARGE INTESTINE

• Tube that contracts and pushes waste tward the anus
• Helps to get rid of waste and absorbs water back into the blood.

ANUS

• Muscular opening
• Allows wasteto exit the body