Digestive System Worksheet

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Digestive System Worksheet

1. What kinds of food are digested in the stomach?
2. What chemicals does the stomach produce?
3. 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

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

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

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1. Enzymes in _________ help begin digestion in the
   mouth.
2. The tongue helps to _________ food.
3. The liver has _________ lobes.
4. __________ movements help in digestion.
5. 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