Digestive System

Question 1

Mouth

Answer 1

Teeth grind your food Enzymes break apart your food Cracker

Question 2

Esophagus

Answer 2

Pushes your food down to the stomach

Question 3

Stomach

Answer 3

Grinds your food (muscles) to further break it up Acid - Enzymes - are secreted to chemically break it down

Question 4

Small Intestine

Answer 4

First part: digests food further with enzymes from the pancreas and the gallbladder Second part: absorbs the digested food (nutrient/chemicals)

Question 5

Large intestine

Answer 5

Absorbs water Releases waste

Question 6

Enzymes

Answer 6

Any of various proteins, as pepsin, originating from living cells and capable of producing certain chemical changes in organic substances by catalytic action, as in digestion

Question 7

Pancreas

Answer 7

A gland, situated near the stomach, that secretes a digestive fluid into the intestine through one or more ducts and also secretes the hormone insulin

Question 8

Gallbladder

Answer 8

A pear-shaped, muscular sac attached to the under surface of the right lobe of the liver, in which bile is stored and concentrated