The Digestive System (Nutrition)

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Across
  1. 2. The tube that connects the throat and the stomach that is lined with a mucous membrane
  2. 4. the process of breaking down food in the body into parts that the body needs
  3. 7. stores and concentrates bile from the liver
  4. 9. absorbs water and salts from parts not digested as food
  5. 11. A muscly organ that mixes the food around for easier digestion
Down
  1. 1. The opening in the face where food is chewed
  2. 3. makes saliva to shape food into a bolus
  3. 5. helps to digest food coming from the stomach. It's 20 feet long
  4. 6. secretes enzymes into the small intestine
  5. 8. secretes bile onto the food to further break it down
  6. 10. a substance that people need to consume to live