Digestive System Parts and

Function
Digestion involves:

• Breaking down of food into smaller pieces

• The mixing of food
• Movement through the digestive tract
• Chemical breakdown of the large
molecules of food into smaller molecules.
Identify the organs of the digestive
system
 Mouth
• Mechanical digestion -
Teeth bite off and chew
food into a soft pulp
that is easy to swallow.

• Chemical digestion –
saliva
 Esophagus
The esophagus is a
muscular tube. It takes
food from the throat and
pushes it down through
the neck, and into the
stomach.

It moves food by waves

of muscle contraction
called peristalsis.
 Stomach
• The stomach has
thick muscles in its
wall. These contract
to mash the food into
a water soup called
chyme.

• The stomach lining

produces strong
digestive juices.
 Small Intestine
• The nutrients are broken
down small enough to pass
through the lining of the
small intestine, and into the
blood.

• Nutrients are carried away

to the liver and other body
parts to be processed,
stored and distributed.
 Large Intestine

• Water is absorbed.

• The remains are formed

into brown, semi-solid
feces, ready to be
removed from the body
 Rectum
• Rectum’s job to receive
stool from the colon, to
let the person know that
there is stool to be
evacuated, and to hold
the stool until evacuation
happens.
 Anus
• Anus- It lets you know
whether the contents
are liquid, gas, or
solid. The anus is
surrounded by
sphincter muscles that
control of movement
of stool.
 Liver
• It stores some
nutrients, and
releases them into
the blood according
to the activities and
needs of the body
(helps the body
maintain
homeostasis)
 Gall Bladder
Bile (enzyme)
flows from the
gall bladder along
the bile duct into
the intestine to
aid in chemical
digestion.
 Pancreas
• Makes digestive
juices called
enzymes which
help to digest
food.