| mouth | Chamber with teeth, grinds food and creates a bolus with saliva from the salivary glands |
| Oesophagus | Long muscular tube connecting the throat to the stomach, walls of the oesophagus contract to push the food down |
| stomach | Muscular bag beneath the diaphragm, changes size and shape. Gastric juices in the stomach break down food. |
| Small intestines | Duodenum -1st part of the small intestine chemical breakdown of food controlled by the pyloric sphincter. |
| Colon | compacts waste and pushes it along dietary tract. |
| Rectum | the rectum stores the waste until defecation through the anus. |
| Mastication? | Chewing |
| Bolus | mixture of food and saliva from salivary glands |
| Duodenum | 1st part of the small intestine chemical breakdown of food controlled by the pyloric sphincter. |
| Jejunum | ½ way down the small intestine. It absorbs nutrients from the pancreas |
| Ileum | Absorbs bile salts from the small intestine. Allows nutrients to absorb into the blood stream. |
