1. The Digestive System By DemvryPagkatipunan

2. Why Is It Important? Helps digest the food Helps us break down food that we eat Also helps get rid of waste Working together as a group Transfers to the intestines Gets stored in the rectum

3. Stomach Process and transport food Digest and breaks down food

4. Rectum Rectum holds waste and other unnecessary materials Last four or five inches of the digestive tract

5. Anus Surface opening of the rectum Where fecal matter is expelled

6. Mouth Opening through which an animal or human takes in food Grinds and chew the food

7. Large Intestine Where waste products from the food you eat are collected Processes into feces

8. Small Intestine Small intestine finishes the process of digestion Absorbs the nutrients

9. Liver Liver is a very large organ weighing up to 3 kg in adult humans Can live with 1 liver

10. Bibliography Websites: http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/digestive_system.html http://www.enchantedlearning.com/subjects/anatomy/digestive/ http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/health-and-human-body/human-body/digestive-system-article.html http://health.howstuffworks.com/human-body/systems/digestive/adam-200142.htm http://www.gastro.net.au/digestive.html http://www.acg.gi.org/patients/women/rectal.asp Pictures: http://www.web-books.com/eLibrary/Medicine/Physiology/Digestive/dige_tract.jpg http://www.pitt.edu/~anat/Abdomen/Stomach/stomach3.jpg http://www.smtr.nhs.uk/Surgery/PublishingImages/Rectum.jpg http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/sigbio/project/digestive/late/rectum.jpg http://www.medicalook.com/systems_images/Mouth_large.jpg http://medicalimages.allrefer.com/large/the-large-intestine.jpg http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/images/ency/fullsize/8940.jpg http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/ency/images/ency/fullsize/8848.jpg