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Test your knowledge of the digestive system with Mrs. Boyer! Identify organs like stomach, liver, and pancreas. Explore how saliva, esophagus, and intestines work. Fun and educational game for all ages! Let's play now!
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Let’s play. . . Name That Organ! Presented to you by: Mrs. Boyer Because. . . Science rules!!!
Can you name this body system? The Digestive System
Name That Organ! • Saliva is produced here. • Saliva starts chang- ing starches into sugar while still in the mouth! salivary glands
Name That Organ! • This organ tastes food and moves it around your mouth to be broken down by teeth and saliva tongue
Name That Organ! • Also known as the “food tube” • The epiglottis is a flap that prevents food or drink from entering the trachea (wind pipe) esophagus
Name That Organ! • Breaks down food by using chemicals (chem- cal digestion) as well as churning food into smaller bits (physical digestion) • Can stretch like a balloon stomach
Name That Organ! • Removes water from digested food • Is also known as the “colon” large intestine
Name That Organ! • Produces and releases digestive chemicals into the small intestine • Also releases “insulin” which regulates the body’s blood sugar levels pancreas
Name That Organ! • Is like the “chemist” of the body Produces “bile” which helps break down fats Stores vitamins for later when the body needs it liver
Name That Organ! • Stores bile that was produced by the liver gall bladder
small intestine • Digestion is com- pleted here • Nutrients are removed and enter the bloodstream through the“villi” Name That Organ!
Name That Organ! • The place where solid waste exits the body rectum
Nice Job! All this talk about the digestive system is making me hungry!!!!