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Which teeth are used to crush and grind things?
Molars are used for crushing and grinding food. They have a large, flat surface that helps break down food into smaller pieces during the chewing process.
Why don't snakes chew their food?
Fish can chew on food, they can only chew on small soft pieces because the have small teeth that let the chew their food.
What structure grinds up the mixture the earthworm eats?
The gizzard in an earthworm is the structure that grinds up the organic material it consumes. It is a muscular structure that helps break down the food into smaller pieces for digestion.
What teeth are used for mashing food?
Premolars and molars are used for mashing and grinding food.. Canines are for tearing meat and incisors are used for cutting chunks of food off.
What are 2 ways food is broken down in the stomach?
The stomach is a sac shaped like a "j" and is about eight inches long. In the stomach, food is mixed with acids. The muscles in the stomach move, which helps break down the food. The stomach is protected from the acid by a lining. From the stomach, the food pulp is sent to the small intestine. Food leaves the stomach a little bit at a time.
How is food broken down into smaller particles?
. A fork and a knife. Your teeth and your saliva.. a butler. A midget
What grinds food mechanically into small pieces?
your teeth and tong. as you chew your teeth crush and grind the food into small pieces, the saliva causes the food to chemically break down and your tong moves it around in your mouth to make the small ball that can be swallowed.
What is the function of a mollusks radial?
It it used for feeding (NovaNet) :)
What is the breaking pf large food pieces into small pieces?
The process of breaking large food pieces into smaller ones is called mastication. This is primarily done by the teeth in the mouth through chewing, which helps to mechanically break down food into smaller, more manageable pieces for easier swallowing and digestion.
What does the mouth do to aid in digestion?
It chew food in to small pieces and adds saliva for digestion. The process of digestion is to take large food particles and break them down into small food particles. Chewing mechanically reduces the size of the food particles. The saliva helps breaks down starch into sugar.
Is the food in your small intestine experiencing a chemical or mechanical break down?
chemical break down
What part of your body breaks down food and absorbs nutrition's?
That's actually a process. The breaking down begins in the mouth where your teeth break the food into smaller pieces. Then your stomach acids break down the food into a substance called chyme. Then the Chyme goes into the small intestine where the nutrient absorbing occurs.
Is chewing food to break it down into smaller pieces a physical or chemical change?
Yes.
What is a substance used to break down food?
small intestine
What in the stomach and small intestines break down food?
enzymes
How the intestines break down food?
There are certain glands and enzymes in the stomach and the intestines that help to break down the food.
How are crop and gizzard different?
The crop stores food and the gizzard is used to mechanically break food down into smaller pieces.
