Digestive System

6. Waste products pass through this intestine.
7. A muscular tube that connects your mouth to your stomach
9. Digestion when there is a chemical reaction to breakdown food.
10. The intestine where most digestion occurs.
11. The first chemical released for digestion in your body
13. Food energy is measured in this unit
14. The location where nutrients are sent into the blood stream to feed all the cells.
16. Parts of food that you use for your survival and growing
17. The location where gastric juice, an acid, is added to food to digest it.

1. The body system that eliminates carbon dioxide as you breathe.
2. Where digestion begins.
3. The process by which the wave action of muscles moves food down the esophagus.
4. Digestion when there is a physical breakdown of food into smaller pieces
5. The first mechanical digestion in your body
8. The combination of different body systems that eliminates waste.
12. The mechanical and chemical breakdown of food
15. The body system that removes liquid waste.