Digestive System Worksheet

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Digestive System Worksheet

• What kinds of food are digested in the stomach?
• What chemicals does the stomach produce?
• What is the function of the mucus lining the
  stomach?

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Word Bank

• Cardiac
• Transverse
• Tongue
• Pancreas
• Pyloric
• Hepatic duct
• Ascending
• Saliva
• Mouth

• Descending
• Esophogus
• Liver
• Small intestine
• Assimilate
• Gall bladder
• Villi
• Gastric juices

• Swallow
• Four
• Two
• Peristaltic
• Appendix

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Digestion Worksheet

• Food goes through the ________ from the mouth to
  the stomach.
• The stomach makes churning movements and produces
  __________.
• The __________ ___________ assimilates dissolved
  food.
• The __________ and __________ send digestive
  juices into the ____________.

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• The two openings at either end of the stomach are
  ____________ and _____________.
• The _________ carries substances from the liver.
• Villi in the small intestine _________ the
  dissolved food.
• The colon has three main divisions __________,
  __________, and __________.

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• Enzymes in _________ help begin digestion in the
  mouth.
• The tongue helps to _________ food.
• The liver has _________ lobes.
• __________ movements help in digestion.
• The __________ serves no known useful purpose.

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How You Digest Food

• Describe the role of each part of the digestive
  system in the process of digesting food.
• Teeth 6. Pancreas
• Salivary Glands 7. Liver
• Esophagus 8. Large Intestine
• Stomach 9. Rectum
• Small intestine