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Find the digestive
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2. A long folded tube inside the body attached to the 1. After being swallowed, food goes to this place
stomach where nutrients in the food are absorbed. where it is mixed with acid.
6. A part of your throat that acts like a gateway 3. The tube after the small intestine where liquid is
sending air into the lungs and food down into the absorbed.
stomach.
4. These are used to chew food.
7. The place where waste is stored before it leaves
5. The good things in food.
the body.
9. A slippery liquid that makes food easy to swallow
8. The part of the food that is not digested.
and helps to break the food down.
11. The tube that connects the stomach to the
10. The process of breaking down food for use as
mouth.
energy and building materials for your body.
12. A verb that means to push food through your
13. This produces juices (called bile) that go into the
pharynx.
small intestine and help digest the food.
14. Crush food with your teeth.
15. Muscle in your mouth that is used for pushing
food around.
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