Ruminant Digestion System

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Across
  1. 2. Mexican soup that has pieces of the reticulum in it.
  2. 5. Begins to prepare unused food material for removal from the body.
  3. 7. Animals that eat strictly plants.
  4. 9. Where food is ingested, chewed and moistened with saliva.
  5. 12. Disease caused from foreign objects being left in the reticulum.
  6. 14. Digestive system that has a 4 chambered stomach; deer, cattle, goats.
  7. 15. Honeycomb like; removes foreign matter from food material.
  8. 17. Organ that allows for the bacterial and chemical breakdown of fiber; fingerlike papillae.
  9. 18. "Chewing the _____"
Down
  1. 1. Where most of the food material is absorbed into the bloodstream; includes duodenum, jejunum, ilieum.
  2. 3. Collects the unused food material that is to be removed from the body.
  3. 4. Food tube that leads from the mouth to the stomach.
  4. 6. High fiber food sources.
  5. 8. Animals that eat both meat and plants.
  6. 10. Grinds the food material and prepares it for chemical breakdown; folds.
  7. 11. Animals that eat strictly meat.
  8. 13. True stomach; majority of chemical breakdown, mixes digestive juices.
  9. 16. Allows for further breakdown of cellulose material.