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Digestive syestem by: Samerah Johnson Mouth A mouth is below your nose and above your chin. This area holds your teeth and tough, your teeth help you crunch your food in to bits so that way you would be able to swollow it and put it in your system. Your lips are to help you speak and to smile nice./www.Ask.com Esophagus The esophagus is a tube that transports saliva, liquids and foods from the mouth to the stomach. The esophagus is about 23 to 25cm long. The esophagus connects your neck to your stomach./www.Ask.com Stomach The stomach is a place were your food has been broken down from your mouth into the stomach. Your stomach digests your food and turned into fecces./www.Ask.com Small intestine The small intestine is a place were the final breakdown is made for the food and it enters the bloodstream./www.Ask.com Large intestine The large intestine is the area in the body that helps digest food that passes out of the stomach./www.Ask.com Liver The liver is located in the upper right of the body. The liver weighs about 3 pounds and is the largest organ in the body/www.Ask.com Appendix An appendix is a organ that every female human has at birth. The appendix is attached to the small intestine./www.Ask.com Pancreas The pancreas is apart of the digestive system and is located below the stomach./www.Ask.com Gall bladder The gall bladder is pear shaped organ located on the liver that stores bile./www.Ask.com Enzymes Enzymes is a organ that breaks down we eat. an Enzymes is a complex protein. Bile / bile duct a yellow or greenish viscid alkaline fluid secreted by the liver and passed into the duodenum where it aids especially in the emulsification and absorption of fats—called also Mucus a viscid slippery secretion that is usually rich in mucins and is produced by mucous membranes which it moistens and protects Chemical Digestion Digestion is the process by which nutrients are extracted from food and absorbed by the body. The first stage of this process is called mechanical digestion and involves food being chewed and swallowed. Absorption the process of absorbing or of being absorbed — compare adsorption Mechanical Digestion Mechanical digestion breaks down food into smaller tiny bits of food. Salivary Amylase of or relating to saliva or the glands that secrete it; : producing or carrying saliva./www.Ask.com Villi Villi is like appendages that line the small intestine. The villi helps in digestine do to their rich blood supply and single celled wall./www.Ask.com Gastric Juices Gastric Juices are a secretion of the stomach that breaks down the protiens we eat so that food is able to be digested./www.Ask.com Duodenum The duodenum connects the stomach to the small intestine and can be helpful and digest food./www.Ask.com Chyme The chyme is a organ which food passes through and is turned into gastric secretion and which passes from the stomach into the small intestine./www.Ask.com Bibliography I found my information at www.Ask.com or if I didn’t get enough I would go to www.Wikipiedia.com I got my pictures at www.Shutterstock.com