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Digestive system

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It's the act of eating, or putting food in your mouth.

Ingestion

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It's the breakdown of food into smaller particles  that your body can use.

Digestion

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It's when the cells of the digestive system  take in small molecules of digested food

Absorption

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It's the removal of waste from your body.

Elimination

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It's the type of digestion in which food is physically  broken down.

Mechanical digestion

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It's the type of digestion in which food is chemically  broken down

Chemical digestion

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This type of proteins help break down molecules and  catalyze chemical reactions

Enzymes

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It's the organ of the digestive system where  digestion begins

Mouth

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It's a muscular tube that connects the mouth to  the stomach

Esophagus

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Name given to the muscular contractions that move food  through the digestive system

Peristalsis

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Thin, watery liquid made of food and gastric  juices

Chyme

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Fingerlike structures in the small intestine that  absorb nutrients

Villi

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State of total equilibrium in the body, while nutrients are being carried throughout the entire system

Homeostasis

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Name all 4 stages that food goes through when you eat it

Ingestion, digestion, absorption and elimination

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Name the two parts of the digestive system

Digestive tract and organs of the DS

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Name of the organ that excretes the enzyme Amylase

Salivary glands

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