Digestion-Gavin Nix

4. energy you need to maintain automatic process.
6. billions of tiny, finger-like projections all over the inner wall of the small intestine.
7. muscular pouch just below rib cage that produces gastric juices, acids, and enzymes in order to break food down.
8. help body digest and absorb fats. Produced in the liver and stored in gall bladder until needed.
12. storage form of glucose.
13. gland connected to the small intestine.
15. Special protein that helps a chemical reaction take place.
17. mixture of enzymes made by the pancreas.
18. mechanically breaks down food while in mouth
19. use of nutrients to provide energy

1. rhythmic movements of muscles.
2. connects the stomach to the large intestine and is responsible for absorbing most of the nutrients from food.
3. amount of energy needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water by 1 degree Celsius.
5. way nutrients move through bloodstream.
9. works with other juices to break down food. Produced in small intestine.
10. body's basic fuel.
11. Mechanical and chemical process of breaking down food and changing nutrients into forms your body can use.
14. the part of the digestive tract that connects the mouth and the stomach.
15. first step of the digestion.
16. when molecules combine with oxygen.