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Food and Nutrition / The Digestive System

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6.	When food passes through the digestive system
7.	Type of digestion that is the physical breakdown of large pieces of food into small pieces
9.	Large muscular sac that continues the digestion of the food
11.	There is _________ in the food
13.	An important part of a healthy diet
16.	Helps to moisten the food and make it easier to chew

18.	Assisting the pancreas in fat digestion is the _______
19.	Intestine that absorbs water as undigested material moves throught and is eliminated from the body
22.	Begins to break the chemical bonds in starches, forming sugars
23.	Provide the force that moves food through the esophagus toward the stomach
24.	The most important nutrient.

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1.	Sphincter that closes after food passes into the stomach
2.	It is situated just behind the stomach
3.	The process when some materials travel through the large intestine and are eliminated from the body as feces
4.	The fingerlike projections
5.	Breaks proteins into smaller polypeptide fragments
8.	Is the process of putting food into your mouth
10.	A major source of energy

12.	Intestine that its first part is the duodenum
14.	Inorganic nutrients that the body needs, usually in small amounts
15.	Supply raw materials for growth and repair of structures suck as skin and muscle
17.	Organic molecules that the body needs in very small amounts
20.	The process when cells absorbs the food in the small intestine
21.	The bolus passes through a tube called the _______________

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Food and Nutrition / The Digestive System

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Across:

6.	When food passes through the digestive system
7.	Type of digestion that is the physical breakdown of large pieces of food into small pieces
9.	Large muscular sac that continues the digestion of the food
11.	There is _________ in the food
13.	An important part of a healthy diet
16.	Helps to moisten the food and make it easier to chew

18.	Assisting the pancreas in fat digestion is the _______
19.	Intestine that absorbs water as undigested material moves throught and is eliminated from the body
22.	Begins to break the chemical bonds in starches, forming sugars
23.	Provide the force that moves food through the esophagus toward the stomach
24.	The most important nutrient.

Down:

1.	Sphincter that closes after food passes into the stomach
2.	It is situated just behind the stomach
3.	The process when some materials travel through the large intestine and are eliminated from the body as feces
4.	The fingerlike projections
5.	Breaks proteins into smaller polypeptide fragments
8.	Is the process of putting food into your mouth
10.	A major source of energy

12.	Intestine that its first part is the duodenum
14.	Inorganic nutrients that the body needs, usually in small amounts
15.	Supply raw materials for growth and repair of structures suck as skin and muscle
17.	Organic molecules that the body needs in very small amounts
20.	The process when cells absorbs the food in the small intestine
21.	The bolus passes through a tube called the _______________

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