Digestive Vocabulary Match PDF

**Digestive Vocabulary Match** **Name: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Period: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** **Match the vocabulary with the correct definition below.** 1\. Digestion 2\. Calorie 3\. Nutrients 4\. Esophagus 5\. Saliva 6\. Liver 7\. Pancreas 8\. Enz...

**Digestive Vocabulary Match** **Name: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_ Period: \_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_\_** **Match the vocabulary with the correct definition below.** 1\. Digestion 2\. Calorie 3\. Nutrients 4\. Esophagus 5\. Saliva 6\. Liver 7\. Pancreas 8\. Enzymes 9\. Peristalsis 10\. Bolus 11\. Chime 12\. Villi substances which chemically act on food to break it down into simpler substances the tube leading from the throat to the stomach the name given to a food ball formed in the mouth and then swallowed a measurement to show how much energy a food contains organ located near the stomach; makes bile which helps break fat into smaller pieces called fat droplets makes pancreatic juice which contains many enzymes that act on the food in the small intestine; also produces sodium bicarbonate to neutralize the acidity of the food coming from the stomach the name given to food as it leaves the stomach and moves into the small intestine the usable portions of food used for growth, repair, and replacement liquid released in the mouth to moisten food and to begin the dissolving of food structures which line the walls of the small intestine and are responsible for transferring food into the circulatory system the process of breaking food down to be used by the body muscular contractions that move food through the digestive system