Diagram+With+Special+Section

= = media type="custom" key="19101416" media type="youtube" key="Uzl6M1YlU3w" width="425" height="350" = **The Digestive Process (way trough):** = =1. The start of the process - The mouth - The digestive process begins in the mouth. Food is broken down by chewing and by the chemical action of salivary enzymes (these enzymes are produced by the salivary glands ).=

=2. On the way to the stomach - The esophagus - After being chewed and swallowed, the food enters the esophagus. The esophagus is a long tube that runs from the mouth to the stomach. It uses muscle movements to force food from the throat into the stomach. This musclar movement give us the ability to eat or drink even when we're upside-down.=

=3. In the stomach - The stomach is a large, sack. Is the organ that churns the food in a very strong acid (gastric acid). Food in the stomach is partly digested and mixed with stomach acids its called chyme.= = = =4. In the small intestine - After being in the stomach, food enters the duodenum, the first part of the small intestine. It then enters the jejunum and then the ileum (the final part of the small intestine ). In the small intestine, digestive enzymes are produced by the inner wall of the small intestine that helps breakdown food.=

=5. In the large intestine - After passing through the small intestine, food passes into the large intestine. In the large intestine, some of the water and electrolytes (chemicals like sodium) are removed from the food. Food then travels upward in the ascending colon. The food travels across the abdomen in the transverse colon, goes back down the other side of the body in the descending colon, and then through the sigmoid colon.=

=6. The end of the process - Solid waste is then stored in the rectum until it is excreted via the anus. In the excretory system.=