Across
- 5. Helps moisten the food and make it easier to chew
- 6. A fluid loaded with lipids and salts
- 7. The first step of digestion
- 9. Way to get rid of the substances that weren't digested
- 11. Converts food intro small molecules that can be used by the cells of the body
- 15. Breaks proteins into smaller polypeptide fragments
- 16. The study of food and its effects on the body.
- 17. Provide the force that moves the food from the esophagus toward the stomach
- 19. Inorganic nutrients that the body needs, usually in small amounts
- 22. Provides nutrients in adequate amounts and enough energy for a person to maintain a healthful weight
- 24. A mixture with an oatmeal-like consistency produced in the mechanical digestion of the stomach
- 25. Is a large muscular sac that continues the chemical and mechanical digestion of food
Down
- 1. An enzyme that begins to break the chemical bonds of starches, forming sugars
- 2. Way to get the nutrients of the food
- 3. A folded surface and fingerlike projections that provide and enourmous surface area for absobtion of nutrient molecules
- 4. The first part of the small intestine
- 8. Provide general information about nutrition as well as specific information about the product
- 10. Its primary function is to remove water from the undigested material that is left
- 12. Tiny projections that cover the villi
- 13. A pouchlike organ in which bile is stored
- 14. Here srarts thework of the digestive system
- 18. Tube in which the bolus passes from the throat into the stomach
- 20. A gland that serves three important functions, located behind the stomach
- 21. Food is broken down in to ways, mechanical and chemical _______
- 23. Are anchored bones of the jaw, its surfaces are protected by a coating of mineralized enamel