Different Ways Animals Eat
Compare chewing, sucking, filtering, scraping and swallowing food across animals.
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Compare chewing, sucking, filtering, scraping and swallowing food across animals.
Trace food from mouth to anus and identify the main function of each digestive organ.
Describe chewing, saliva, tongue action, oesophagus movement and stomach digestion.
Connect bile, pancreatic juice, intestinal juice, villi and blood absorption with digestion.
Explain how undigested food becomes faeces and leaves the body.
Describe cud chewing, rumen microbes and cellulose digestion in cattle and similar animals.
Explain pseudopodia, food vacuole digestion and removal of undigested food.
Use digestion knowledge to reason about balanced meals, chewing, fibre and digestive problems.
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