If I give myself a cookie…where will it go?

Laura Ribail

Organ system designed to break down food into nutrients that are absorbed into the bloodstream

Organs: mouth, esophagus, stomach, small intestine, large intestine, rectum/anus

What type of digestion occurs in your mouth?

What type of movement helps your food travel through the esophagus?

How long does food stay in the stomach? What happens there?

Why is the gall bladder important to digestion?

Describe the small intestines. Why is it covered with capillaries?

What items make it to the large intestines?

Name one thing that you learned about this part of the digestive system.

What do all those little strips of index cards represent?

What is the digestive system? Name the major organs of the digestive

system. How long does the digestive process

take? What is the purpose of the gall bladder in

digestion? What are the 2 major types of digestion?

Where are those 2 types seen in the digestive process?