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