169 Digestive System Notes and Ws
2/17/15
Starter:
Digestive System Notes and Ws170
2/17/15
Application/Connection:
Digestive System Ws
Tu
Practice:
Glue notes here
Exit:
Explain what happens in the
mouth when you chew food.
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February 17, 2015
AGENDA
Objective 7.12 B Identify
the main functions of the
systems of the human
organism, including the
circulatory, respiratory,
skeletal, muscular,
digestive, excretory,
reproductive,
integumentary, nervous, and
endocrine systems by
completing a skeletal system
worksheet
1. Starter
2. Digestive System Notes
3. Digestive System Ws
Table of Contents
Date
Lecture/ Activity/ Lab
Page
1/27
Cell State
1/28
Cell Comparison Booklet
1/29
Mitosis Notes
1/30
Mitosis Poster
2/2
Mitosis Sort and Review
2/3
Test Review
2/5-6
Body Systems Overview
2/9
Skeletal and Muscular system notes
2/10-11 Skeletal System Activity
2/12
Muscular System Ws
2/13-16
Muscular System Lab
2/17
Digestive System Notes and Ws
147-148
149-150
151-152
153-154
155-156
157-158
159-160
161-162
163-164
165-166
167-168
169-17
The Digestive System
and Nutrition
Important Vocabulary
• Digestion: The process of breaking
food down to be used by the body.
– Why is digestion important?
• Food must be broken down in order for our
body to be able to absorb all of the
substances important for daily functions.
• Food must small enough to be absorbed into
the blood and carried to the cells.
Important Vocabulary
• Digestion cont:
– Two types of digestion:
• Mechanical Digestion: occurs in the mouth
(chewing), and in the stomach (churning of
stomach muscles)
• Chemical Digestion: occurs through the use
of enzymes (substances which chemically act
on food to break it down) in saliva, the
stomach, in the small intestine
Important Vocabulary:
Organs of the Digestive
System
• Mouth: The first step in digestion is
actually getting the food into your
body.
– Teeth: mechanically break food down
into smaller pieces
– Saliva: softens food and chemically
breaks food down further
– Tongue: moves food around the mouth,
forms a bolus (ball of food)
Important Vocabulary:
Organs of the Digestive
System
• Esophagus: a hollow tube at the back
of the throat that connects to the
stomach.
– To prevent food from “going down the
wrong pipe” a flap of skin called the
epiglottis closes over the opening of the
trachea (windpipe) when we swallow
– Peristalsis: muscular contractions that
move food down the esophagus into the
stomach.
• Imagine squeezing a tube of toothpaste…
Important Vocabulary:
Organs of the Digestive
System
• Stomach: a hollow, J-shaped organ
located below the esophagus and
above the small intestine.
– The stomach uses both mechanical and
chemical digestion to break food
particles down.
• Mechanical digestion: 3 layers of muscles
• Chemical digestion: digestive or gastric
enzymes
Important Vocabulary:
Organs of the Digestive
System
• Small Intestine: responsible for
absorbing nutrients from food.
– First 1/3 of the S.I. :Bile from the gall
bladder and digestive enzymes from the
pancreas and walls of the small intestine
further break food down.
– Second 1/3 of the S.I.: contains fingerlike projections called villi
Important Vocabulary: Organs
of the Digestive System
• Small Intestine cont:
– Villi: increase the surface area of the S.I.
so that more nutrients can be absorbed
into the blood stream
Important Vocabulary:
Organs of the Digestive
System
• Large intestine: “large” because it is
wider in diameter than the small
intestine (about 3” vs. 1”).
Responsible for absorbing water
from undigested food.
– Material found in the large intestine is
mostly food that cannot be digested any
further and water.
Important Vocabulary:
Organs of the Digestive
System
• Large Intestine: 3 parts
– Colon: Absorbs water and nutrients
from food, as the material moves
through the colon it gets harder and
harder-turning into feces.
– Rectum: Stores feces. Feces move to
the anus by peristalsis.
– Anus: Eliminates solid waste from the
–
body
Other Organs
• Liver: produces bile, is located to the
right of the stomach.
– Bile: responsible for breaking down fats
• Pancreas: located behind the
stomach, and above the small
intestine.
– Secretes digestive enzymes
Gall Bladder: stores and excretes bile
169 Digestive System Notes and Ws
2/17/15
Starter:
Digestive System Notes and Ws170
2/17/15
Application/Connection:
Digestive System Ws
Tu
Practice:
Glue notes here
Exit:
Explain happens in the mouth
when you chew food.