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| How do cells use food? | To make new cells, repair damage, heat your body, give you energy |
| Where does digestion start? | In your mouth |
| What happens in your mouth? | Your teeth cut and grind food into tiny bits. Your food mixes with saliva |
| What connects your mouth with your stomach? | Esophagus |
| How does food move down the esophagus? | Muscles push the food down. |
| What happens to food in the stomach? | Food is mixed with more juices that break down food. |
| Where is food like a thick soup? | In the stomach |
| Where does food go after the stomach? | Into the small intestine |
| What happens in the small intestine? | Tiny particles of digestive food, nutrients, pass into the bloodstream and go the your cells. |
| How do the liver and pancreas help digestion. | They make digestive juices that break down food into nutrients |
| What are villi? | They are in the small intestine. Nutrients pass through it to get to the bloodstream. |
| Where does the food go after the small intestine? | The large intestine |
| What happens in the large intestine? | Parts of food that can not be digested or used by the body go into this organ. Water is removed and returned to the body. |
| What is the rectum? | The large intestine pushes wastes out of the body through this part of the body. |
