Gall Bladder Pancreas and Liver

 

    The pancreas is an elongated gland that is below the stomach. It produces pancreatic juice that contains digestive enzymes. The pancreas also secrets insulin into the blood. Insulin is needed to allow glucose or sugar from food to get into the bloodstream. People who cannot produce insulin are diabetics.

    The largest gland in the body is the liver. It is on the right side of the body underneath the ribs. It weighs about three pounds and is eight inches long. The liver stores a form of glucose called glycogen. Vitamin A is manufactured in the liver. Bile which is needed to breakdown fat, is made in the liver. This organ is also where alcohol, drugs, bacteria and old blood cells are broken down and removed from the body. Damage to the liver can be serious because this organ is extremely necessary to life.

    The gallbladder is a small sac on the underside of the right lobe of the liver. It stores bile that is made by the liver. Bile travels from the liver through the hepatic ducts to the gallbladder. It holds about two ounces of bile. Bile is needed to breakdown the fat that is in food.

Answer the questions

1. What is the structure of digestive system?

2. How many permanent teeth has an adult person?

3. What is the function of stomach, liver?

4. What is the largest gland of the body?

5. Where is liver situated?

Crossword

Across

2. A long folded tube inside the body attached to the stomach where nutrients in the food are absorbed.

6. A part of your throat that acts like a gateway sending air into the lungs and food down into the stomach.

7. The place where waste is stored before it leaves the body.

8. The part of the food that is not digested.

11. The tube that connects the stomach to the mouth.

12. A verb that means to push food through your pharynx.

14. Crush food with your teeth.

15. Muscle in your mouth that is used for pushing food around.

Down

1. After being swallowed, food goes to this place where it is mixed with acid.

3. The tube after the small intestine where liquid is absorbed.

4. These are used to chew food.

5. The good things in food.

9. A slippery liquid that makes food easy to swallow and helps to break the food down.

10. The process of breaking down food for use as energy and building materials for your body.

13. This produces juices (called bile) that go into the small intestine and help digest the food.

 

Word Reaserch

Absorb      appendix          chew              digest           esophagus

Excrete                 filter                       large intestine        liver                 mouth

Excrete            filter                    large intestine         liver              mouth

small intestine      stomach          swallow               teeth             tongue

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