Tissues
"Creatures of the night" crave this example of connective tissue.
What is blood?
This is a fancy word for eating.
What is ingestion?
This "muscular sack's" internal cells are lined with mucus to protect them from being damaged from the acid contained in it.
What is the stomach?
You do a lot of things with this structure - chow down, call out, breathe in...
What is your mouth?
Your mouth releases this when you're hungry and when you start eating.
What is saliva?
This type of tissue allows you to move, contracts your heart, and pushes food through your digestive system.
What is muscle tissue?
There are two types of this - mechanical and chemical. It means to break down food.
What is digestion?
This organ is a storage container for bile.
What is the gallbladder?
Your liver's role in digestion is to help your body digest this macronutrient.
What are fats?
This enzyme is in saliva and is released by your pancreas into your small intestine. It breaks starches into sugar.
What is amylase?
This type of tissue is how your body sends messages between your brain and your body.
What is nervous tissue?
The fancy - and classroom appropriate - word describing the final phase of digestion.
What is elimination?
This organ does not come in contact with food, but releases bile to help with the digestion of fats.
What is the liver?
Your pancreas releases this hormone to notify your body's cells that there is sugar available in your bloodstream for use.
What is insulin?
This enzyme is made in your pancreas and breaks down proteins.
What is pepsin?
This type of tissue supports and bridges throughout the body. Fat tissue is an example.
What is connective tissue?
What is chyme?
This odd word refers to the beginning of the small intestine, where digestion of food is finished.
What is the duodenum?
This organ contains "good" bacteria that provide your body with needed nutrients.
What is the large intestine?
What is -ase?
This type of tissue lines organs, including your skin.
What is epithelial tissue?
This phase of digestion describes how the stuff you need from food gets from your digestive system to your body's cells.
What is absorption?
This small flap covers your trachea when you swallow so that you don't get food in your lungs while eating.
What is the epiglottis?
This describes the wave-like motion of the smooth muscle that moves food through the digestive system.
What is peristalsis?
What are carbohydrates (sugars)?