Digestive System
Oesophagus
What is it used for?
The oesophagus is a tube that connects the throat and the stomach.
Where do you find it?
Throat
How does it work?
As a person swallows, food moves from the mouth to the throat
Weird Examples - A Giraffe has a very long oesophagus
Small Intestine
What is it used for? For all your food to come to form into a poo.
Where do you find it? The bottom of your stomach.
How does it work? The small intestine, or small bowel, is a hollow tube about 20 feet long that runs from the stomach to the beginning of the large intestine. The small intestine breaks down food from the stomach and absorbs much of the nutrients from the food.
Where do you find it? The bottom of your stomach.
How does it work? The small intestine, or small bowel, is a hollow tube about 20 feet long that runs from the stomach to the beginning of the large intestine. The small intestine breaks down food from the stomach and absorbs much of the nutrients from the food.
large Intestine
What is it used for? The major function of the large intestine is to absorb water from the remaining indigestible food matter and transmit the useless waste material from the body.
Where do you find it? Around the small intestine .
How does it work? Its job is to absorb most of the nutrients from what we eat and drink. Velvety tissue lines the small intestine, which is divided into the duodenum, jejunum, and ileum. The large intestine (colon or large bowel) is about 5 feet long and about 3 inches in diameter.
Liver
What is it used for? The liver's main job is to filter the blood coming from the digestive tract, before passing it to the rest of the body.
Where do you find it? Above your stomach and inside of you.
How does it work?The liver's main job is to filter the blood coming from the digestive tract, before passing it to the rest of the body.
Stomach
What is it used for? It helps digest nicely
Where do you find it? Its attached to the oesophagus (Bottom)
How does it work? It digest food or stores it
