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Occurs as food is broken down both chemically and mechanically?
Digestion
Is the mouth a chemical or mecahnical breakdown?
Both, saliva breaks down food chemically, and your teeth mechanically break down food by cutting, grinding, and mashing.
When was Shake Your Body - Down to the Ground - created?
Shake Your Body - Down to the Ground - was created on 1978-12-08.
What is the medical term meaning any part of the body that is farthest from the ground?
The superiormost parts of the body are farthest from the ground.
What is a good analogy for food?
food - body as gasoline - car food - body as wind - sailboat food - body as electricity - light bulb food - body as knowledge - brain
What is the place where food is ground mechanically into small pieces?
The Mouth
What tissues mechanically support the midrib?
Ground tissues?
Where is the first site of digestion in the human body?
The mouth is the first site of digestion in the human body. In the mouth food is broken down mechanically by the jaw and chemically by saliva.
When your body breaks down food into nutrients what type of digestion takes place?
When your body breaks down food into nutrients, chemical digestion is taking place. In contrast, physical digestion breaks down food mechanically into smaller particles.
How does the stomach mechanically break down food?
it digests the food
How does food digest?
For mammals (like people) food is broken apart mechanically by chewing. It the mixes with several different body fluids (starting with saliva) that will start digestion- changing the food you ate into a form that can be absorbed by your body in the intestines. Undigested food is excreted from the body as feces (poop).
Is the liver chemical or mechanical?
Does the liver mechanically break down food or does it chemically do it? It's not a muscle so it doesn't break down food mechanically, but it does secrete chemicals that help to break food down, like bile, which is stored in the gall bladder and released to help break down fats and make them more soluble so that they can be absorbed by the body.
What are the regions that break down foodstuffs mechanically?
The mouth, specifically the teeth, breaks down food mechanically through the process of chewing. The stomach also contributes to mechanical breakdown through muscle contractions that help mix and churn food.
Region that breaks down food mechanically?
The mouth is where food is chewed.
Where in your digestive system is food broken down mechanically?
In the stomach
Which organ mechanically grinds food in a birds digestive system?
Beak
What organ mechanically breaks up food during mastication?
teeth
