Digestive System Revision Crossword Puzzle

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