Digestive System Revision Crossword Puzzle
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QUESTIONS LIST:
- absorption: uptake of nutrients and water from digested food into blood
- incisors: teeth that cut food with sharp edges, biting or nibbling
- pancreas: produces digestive enzymes and insulin
- gallbladder: where bile is stored
- mucus: gastric juice protects the stomach wall against gastric acid secretions
- herbivore: eats plant material
- liver: where bile is produced
- mechanical: churning of the stomach is as example of this type of digestion
- duodenum: first part of the small intestine
- hydrochloric: acid which kills any ingested bacteria, and which lowers the ph to allow pepsin to work
- rectum: final stage of the large intestine that serves as a storage centre for faeces.
- jejunum: part of the small intestine where the majority of nutrient absorption takes place
- skeletal: the tongue is made up of this type of muscle
- pepsin: enzyme that breaks down proteins
- digestion: breakdown of food into essential components
- caecum: enlarged in herbivores
