Organ

Function

Mouth

Begins to break down food.

Mechanical digestion: process of breaking food into smaller pieces. Your teeth grind the food and the tongue moves the food around.

Chemical digestion: process of chemically removing nutrients from food. Your salivary glands produces saliva for chemical digestion.

Esophagus

The transport tube that carries chewed food to the

stomach.  muscles squeeze the food down to the stomach.

Stomach

Continues to break down food.

Mechanical digestion: 3 stomach muscles work together to churn the food

Chemical digestion: secretes gastric juices and acids

Small Intestines

The organ where most of the chemical digestion of

food takes place; nutrients from food are also absorbed through the

 villi in this part of the digestive system.

Large Intestines

The organ where water is absorbed from the food and

taken into the bloodstream; prepares the remaining

undigested food for elimination from the body.

Rectum

A short tube that stores solid waste until it is eliminated from the

body through the anus.

Liver

A secondary organ of the digestive system that

produces bile, which is used by the body to break up fat particles.

Gallbladder

A secondary organ to the digestive system that

functions to store bile produced by the liver.

Pancreas

A secondary organ to the digestive system that

functions to produce digestive juices that help to further

break down the food in the small intestine.