Digestion

2. Type of food that takes the shortest time to break down and leave the stomach
5. Food is forced through this by a muscular action to get to the stomach.
8. Type of food that takes three to five hours to break down
9. First digestive juice to break down food
10. The average number of cups of food the stomach can hold
11. The minimum amount of energy required to maintain life processes
14. produced by the small intestine to break down food
15. The process of breaking down food into usable nutrients
16. Type of food that takes the longest time to digest, up to seven hours
19. In the stomach the food is churned into a thick liquid called _.
20. Muscular actions that moves food through the esophagus and breaks down food in the stomach
21. Finger like projections in the intestines that absorb nutrients
22. Grinds food into smaller pieces so it can be swallowed

1. Where most of the nutrients are absorbed
3. Produced by the walls of the stomach, it is a combination of acids and enzymes that chemically break down food
4. Also called the colon
6. Produced by the pancreas, it contains enzymes to break down carbohydrates, protein and fat
7. The storage form of glucose
12. The process by which fuel is combines with oxygen to produce energy
13. The widest part of the digestive system
17. Produced by the liver to help digest and absorb fat
18. Carbohydrates are broken down into simple sugars called _.