Parts of Digestive System

Mouth

Teeth starts
mechanical digestion

Saliva starts
chemical digestion

Esophagus

Tube to get food
into stomach

Stomach

Mechanical and Chemical
digestion take place

Gastric fluid
Chemically digests food

Small Intestine

Further chemical digestion
happens in the small intestine

The liver makes bile to
digest fats in small intestine

The gallbladder stores bile

The pancreas makes many enzymes to digest food in the small intestine

Absorbs nutrients
from food

Large intestine

Absorbs small
amount of water

Feces is pushed through
and put of body

Muscles churn the food for mechanical
digestion

Andrew Sippel
4-30-20
H. Biology