Digestive Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. folds inside stomach; allowing the stomach to stretch
- 3. breaks down food into chyme
- 7. 2nd part of the small intestine
- 9. develop when bile is stored to long
- 12. absorbs water from remaining food product,eliminating indigestible food
- 14. the chemical reactions occurring in our cells such as molecules breaking down to make ATP and building molecules for nutrition from food
- 16. aids in digestion but doesn't transport food
- 18. stores bile until food enters small intestine
- 21. continuous hollow tube through which food travels through
- 22. food is physically broken down ,chewing
- 24. digestion that breaks down large food parts into smaller pieces
- 25. 1st part of the small intestine
Down
- 1. accumulates gastric gases
- 4. produces bile and secretes it into small intestine to break down fat
- 5. breakdown of ingested food
- 6. connects the Pharynx to stomach through muscle through the diaphragm conducts food by peristalsis
- 8. digestion that breaks down small food into microscopic molecules
- 10. a passageway for air and food helping us swallow food
- 11. slow rhythmic squeezing of smooth muscle, passageway for food only
- 13. responsible for absorption of nutrients from food
- 15. breaking down of starch and other carbohydrates by this enzyme
- 17. delivers products from liver, gallbladder and pancreas
- 19. where digestion of protein takes 1st takes place
- 20. releases variety of enzymes into small intestine to neutralize and break down chyme
- 23. 3rd part of the small intestine