Animal Digestion

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Across
  1. 4. eats plants
  2. 6. large vat that breaks down food with microbes
  3. 10. Digestion that happens in two parts
  4. 12. breaks up food with acid
  5. 13. the process of breaking down food
  6. 14. _______ digestion for physical breakdown
  7. 18. in the small intestine for maximum absorption
  8. 19. eats plants and meat
  9. 20. similar to a simple stomach in Avian Digestion
  10. 22. connects the mouth to the stomach
  11. 24. absorbs water from swallowed cud
  12. 25. contains acid in the ruminant stomach to break down more particles
Down
  1. 1. eats meat
  2. 2. the process where nutrients are taken into the body
  3. 3. consists of the stomach and small intestine
  4. 4. consists of the cecum, large colon, and small colon
  5. 5. mainly absorbs water
  6. 7. digestion determines ______
  7. 8. _______ digestion that uses additional substances for breakdown
  8. 9. Simplest form of digestion
  9. 11. used the Rumen and Cecum to breakdown food
  10. 15. tough material found in plant cells
  11. 16. pulpy fluid after food breakdown in the stomach
  12. 17. stores food in Avian digestion
  13. 21. collects large particles of food to be coughed up as cud
  14. 23. birds need this organ for mechanical digestion