What is the main difference between mechanical and chemical digestion?

Both break down food, but mechanical physically breaks it down while the other relies on chemical reactions.

What organ systems work with the digestive system to carry out peristalsis?

The role of the muscular system, however, the nervous, respiratory, and circulatory systems are also involved.

 Would food move through your esophagus into your stomach if you were lying down?

Yes, it would because the muscular contraction of peristalsis would still push the food down the esophagus.

Which part of the digestive system absorbs water?

The small and large intestine.

  OTHER QUESTIONS ASKED IN CLASS

What is the role of the salivary glands in the digestive system?

Why must waste be eliminated from the body?

What medical symptoms arise if kidneys do not function properly?

What does it mean if something is toxic?

How might your habits change if you had celiac disease?

Washburn School sixth-graders reviewed the different types of muscle cells by looking at cardiac, smooth, and skeleton muscle from various animals through microscopic slides. They used microscopes to identify the nucleus location and number and made inferences about their functions in their lab report.

In STEM applications, they studied how the brain can control bionic arms by using the patients' nervous systems to control mechanics.

As a college preparatory school, we seek to inspire our students to explore the various careers needed to continue work in this area. Doctors and nurses perform and aid in surgery to attach nerves from the damaged arms to the arm and chest muscles. Engineers work with making sure the mechanics of the bionic arm harnesses sensors that send signals between the brain and machine. Computer engineers and scientists work with how the computer processes the signals and with research in the area!