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Parts of the Digestive System

Match the parts of the digestive system to their correct functions

1. Food is chewed into smaller pieces and mixed with

saliva here

2. Produces bile. Also removes toxins from your blood

3. Bile is stored here until it is needed

4. A muscular bag secrets gastric juice and mixes food

around

5. Produces some of the enzymes which are important

for digestion

6. Digested food is absorbed here into the bloodstream

7. Undigested food goes here. Water and mineral salts

from undigested food are absorbed

8. The last section of the large intestine

9. A long and narrow muscular tube that relaxes and

contracts, moving swallowed food into the stomach

ESOPHAGUS PANCREAS RECTUM

LIVER GALL BLADDER LARGE INTESTINE
MOUTH STOMACH SMALL INTESTINE

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Name: Date:

Parts of the Digestive System

Match the parts of the digestive system to their correct functions

1. MOUTH Food is chewed into smaller pieces and mixed with

saliva here

2. LIVER Produces bile. Also removes toxins from your blood

3. GALL BLADDER Bile is stored here until it is needed

4. STOMACH A muscular bag secrets gastric juice and mixes food

around

5. PANCREAS Produces some of the enzymes which are important

for digestion

6. SMALL INTESTINE Digested food is absorbed here into the bloodstream

7. LARGE INTESTINE Undigested food goes here. Water and mineral salts
from undigested food are absorbed

8. RECTUM The last section of the large intestine

9. ESOPHAGUS A long and narrow muscular tube that relaxes and

contracts, moving swallowed food into the stomach

ESOPHAGUS PANCREAS RECTUM

LIVER GALL BLADDER LARGE INTESTINE
MOUTH STOMACH SMALL INTESTINE

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