Digestion
Body
Nutrition
System
Name the Parts
100
What is the clear liquid found in the mouth called?
saliva
100
what is one way that the tongue helps in digestion?
pushes small ball of food toward the back of the throat to be swallowed.
100
What is a special cluster of cells on the tongue that react to chemicals in food called?
Taste buds
100
How do the teeth help in digestion?
tear and crunch food to help break it down.
100
Where does digestion begin?
the mouth
200
Identify #4 
small intestine
200
Identify #2
esophagus
200
What are the food groups displayed in, to help you know how much of each food group you need?
place setting
200
Identify #3
stomach
200
Identify #1
Mouth
300
What is one of the jobs that saliva has in digestion?
breaks down food for digestion
300
Identify #5
Large intestine
300
What are the five basic food groups?
fruit, grains, dairy, vegetables, protein.
300
What are the squeezing movements made by the esophagus muscles as food moves to the stomach?
peristalsis
300
What is the stretchy storage bag in the digestive tract below the esophagus called?
stomach
400
What is one way that gastric juices help in digestion?
Help the stomach break down food
400
What is the liquidlike mixture of food formed when juices in the stomach breakdown swallowed food?
chyme
400
What in the sphincter ring controls the opening?
muscles
400
What is the name of the flap of tissue that closes to keep food out of the trachea?
epiglottis
400
What digestive organ produces insulin and makes enzymes that break down food into nutrients that can be absorbed?
pancreas
500
WHERE are nutrients from food absorbed?
small intestine
500
What organ produces bile and filters poison and waste from the blood.
liver
500
What are the tiny finger-like structures found in the small intestine?
villi
500
What organ stores excess bile from the liver and released it when needed?
gallbladder
500
What nutrients provide stored energy and help insulate the body called?
Fat