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Nervous & Digestive
information about the nervous and digestive systems
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What are the main parts of the nervous system? | brain, spinal cord, and nerves |
| What controls all of your body parts? | brain |
| Messages are sent from your brain along _____________ to the many parts of your body. | nerves |
| Your ____________ ____________ is a tube of nerves that run through your spine. | spinal cord |
| Nerve cells are called ______________. | neurons |
| The spinal cord runs through your ___________. | spine |
| What does the digestive system provide for your body's cells? | nutrients |
| What does the digestive system do to the food you eat? | digest |
| Where does digestion begin? | mouth |
| In what part of the body is food ground up and mixed with saliva? | mouth |
| What is the tube that leads from the mouth to the stomach? | esophagus |
| What is the bag made up of smooth muscles that squeezes food and mixes it with digestive juices until food is mostly liquid? | stomach |
| In what part of the digestive tract does most digestion occur? | small intestine |
| The small intestine is a long tube of muscle. Nutrients pass through the walls into ______________. | capillaries |
| The ___________________ in the capillaries carry the nutrients throughout the body. | blood |
| When the food reaches the ______________ _____________, most of it cannot be broken down any further. | large intestine |
| In the large intestine, _________________ is removed, and the waste material waits to be excreted from the body. | water |
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