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What is the organ that grinds up food in an earthworm?
The gizzard.
What is the function of the gizzard of an earthworm?
Yes the gizzard diggests the food / crushes it
What is part of the earthworm's digestive system that grinds food?
The Gizzard, it's the part of the worm that grinds up foods or solids.
How is food digested in an earthworm?
It has an esophagus for the food to go down, a crop to store the food in, a gizzard that grinds the food down, intestines for the food to pass through and take out nutrients.
What structure grinds up the mixture the earthworm eats?
gizzards
What is the function of the earthworms gizzard?
The function of an earthworm's gizzard is that the gizzard grinds organic matter.
What structure grinds up what earthworms eat?
The gizzard is the structure that grinds up the food.
How does the gizzard and the inward fold of the intestine help the earthworm digest food?
The gizzard grinds up all the food to the intestine can absorb it. The inward fold of the intestine, also known as the typhlosole, adds surface area to the intestine. That gives the earthworm's intestine more absorptive surface area. The gizzard and the inward flap of the intestine work together to let the worm absorb more of what it takes in.
Compare and contrast an earthworm gizzard to teeth in other animals?
The gizzard is like teeth in an animal because the gizzard grinds down the soil into bits.
What does the teeth do in the digestion?
grinds the food into smaller bits
What process tears grinds and mashes large food particles into smaller ones?
Mechanical digestion tears, grinds, and mashes large food particles into smaller ones.
How the earthworm get and eat their food?
at the soils
