4. Digestion is food traveling through your body.
•Food starts in a form the body can’t use.
•Food is broken down into smaller molecules
your body can use – that is digestion.
What is Digestion?
7. Digestive Tract
Digestive tract is the
path the food
follows.
Path food follows in the digestive tract:
1) Mouth No longer voluntary
2) Esophagus
3) Stomach
4) Small Intestine
5) Large Intestine
6) Rectum
9. The Digestive Tract: The Mouth
1) Mouth – food starts in the mouth and is broken down into
pieces by teeth.
-Saliva makes the food more slippery and easier to swallow.
-Saliva in the mouth has enzymes that help to break food into
smaller pieces.
Enzymes make chemical reactions go faster.
The mouth is the LAST place you have control of the food.
11. The Digestive Tract: Esophagus
2) Esophagus – food goes from the mouth to the esophagus.
Muscles in the esophagus help to move the food toward the
stomach.
12. The Digestive Tract: Esophagus
Esophagus
2) Esophagus – food goes from the mouth to the esophagus.
Muscles in the esophagus help to move the food toward the
stomach.
14. The Digestive Tract: Stomach
3) Stomach – food is broken down more in the stomach by
more enzymes and stomach acid .
15. The Digestive Tract: Stomach
3) Stomach – food is broken down more in the stomach by
more enzymes and stomach acid .
16. The Digestive Tract: Stomach
Stomach
3) Stomach – food is broken down more in the stomach by
more enzymes and stomach acid .
17. The Digestive Tract: Small Intestine
4) Small Intestine – where most of the nutrients from your food
is absorbed . Your small intestine is about 6 or 7 meters long!
18. The Digestive Tract: Small Intestine
Small Intestine
4) Small Intestine – where most of the nutrients from your food
is absorbed . Your small intestine is about 6 or 7 meters long!
19. The Digestive Tract: Small Intestine
Small Intestine
4) Small Intestine – where most of the nutrients from your food
is absorbed . Your small intestine is about 6 or 7 meters long!
23. VilliVilli create a lot
of area so they
can absorb
nutrients from
food.
Small intestine is
where most of
the nutrients
from your food
is absorbed into
your body.
25. The Digestive Tract: Large Intestine
5) Large Intestine – absorbs water from the food. The large
intestine is about 1.5 meters long. The large intestine and
colon are the same thing.
26. The Digestive Tract: Large Intestine
Large Intestine
5) Large Intestine – absorbs water from the food. The large
intestine is about 1.5 meters long. The large intestine and
colon are the same thing.
27. The Digestive Tract: Large Intestine
Large Intestine
5) Large Intestine – absorbs water from the food. The large
intestine is about 1.5 meters long. The large intestine and
colon are the same thing.
28. The Digestive Tract: Rectum
6) Rectum– Stores feces.
Feces is made of the parts of food your body did not use.
29. The Digestive Tract: Rectum
Rectum
6) Rectum– Stores feces.
Feces is made of the parts of food your body did not use.
33. 1) What do you think the things are in the background of this slide?
2) Name two places in your body where food is broken down into smaller parts.
3) What does the large intestine do?
4) Where does most of the nutrients for your body get absorbed from?
5) What are the things that absorb nutrients in the small intestine called?
6) Name 2 things you think saliva (spit) does to help digestion.
7) Why does the small intestine need a lot of surface area?
8) My mom used to always tell me to chew my food well before I went to play. Why do you
think she told me to do that?
9) Name the 6 steps of the digestive tract in the right order. Try to do it without your
notes!!
10) Your mouth has things called “salivary glands” in it. Can you guess what is the job of your
salivary glands?
11) Draw the entire DIGESTIVE TRACT in your notebook. Use a different color for each of the
six parts.
12) Tell me what digestion is in your own words.
13) Do you think the large intestine has villi in it? Why or why not?
14) Watch the artistic animation by Fritz Kahn again:
a) What part is missing from the digestive tract?
b)What sprays the food as it enters the intestine?
c)Why do you think the man waits before he releases food from the
stomach?
Questions
