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Digestive System
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Question | Answer |
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What is Chemical Digestion? | Digestion where you break down or change the chemical composition of food into a new substance. (A Chemical Change) |
What is Mechanical Digestion? | Digestion that only affects the physical form of food, not changing the chemical composition. (A Physical Change) |
What does the Esophagus do? | Move food from mouth to stomach. |
What does the Stomach do? | Digests food with acid and enzymes. |
What does the Liver do? | Filters toxins and makes Bile. |
What does the Gallbladder do? | Stores Bile and uses it to break down fatty foods |
What does the Pancreas do? | Regulates blood sugar with insulin or glucagon. |
What does the Large Intestine do? | Absorb water and vitamins for the body and forms feces and propels it to the rectum for it to be expelled from the body. |
What does the Small Intestine do? | Digests with enzymes and absorbs nutrients for the body. |