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Our digestive system breaks food down into small particles called nutrients.

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Our muscles and organs need these nutrients to give us energy and help us grow.

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Once the digestive system has extracted the nutrients, it gets rid of the waste.

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Let's take a look at some of the individual parts of the digestive system.

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The first part of the digestive system is the mouth.

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Here, food is broken up by the teeth and mixed with saliva by the tongue.

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Once food is processed by the mouth, it goes down the esophagus into the stomach.

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The esophagus is the tube that leads from the mouth to the stomach that food travels down.

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Food travels from the esophagus into the stomach.

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Here the food is processed by gastric juices that make the food easier to digest.

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This is the small intestine. The small intestine has lots of blood vessels.

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Nutrients pass into the blood here and are distributed throughout the rest of the body.

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This is the large intestine. Waste passes through here. Water goes out into the body and the waste

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becomes harder. Food waste, after passing through the large intestine, goes to the anus, where it

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leaves the body. Digestion takes place mainly in the small intestine, but some nutrients are

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digested in the mouth and stomach. Some things are not digested. Water, minerals, and vitamins

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are small enough to pass into the blood without being digested.

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excretory system let's talk about what happens to the waste the body produces when the blood

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goes through the kidneys excess water and waste products are dropped off and made into urine

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jurors are the tubes that connect the kidneys to the bladder urine that is made by the kidneys

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goes down the ureters into the bladder the bladder is where urine is stored when the

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bladder is full, it sends messages to our brain. When the bladder is full, it sends the urine to

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the urethra. The urethra is the tube that all of the urine exits the body out of.