Digestion Review

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Large twenty slowly small digested
Mouth pharynx esophagus stomach food
Enzymes four eight large waste
Small five water twenty-four
Acid gall bladder pancreas small
Blood large bag eat food
Smaller body ten stomach empty
Balloon stretchy tank

1. Food first enters the ________________.
2. It is then swallowed by the ____________________.
3. Then passes through the ____________________.
4. Then to the ____________________.
5. This muscular bag churns ________ and dissolves some by releasing ________.
6. The ________________ and the __________________ release juices in the first part of the _________ intestines.
7. Most digested food enters the ________ .
8. The _________ intestines absorb water and forms feces expelled out.

My Stomach

1. It is a stretchy ________ that holds my food after I _____ .
2. It also helps break my ________ into ________ pieces so my _______ can use it.
3. About ____ seconds after I swallow my food, it reaches my ________.
4. When my stomach is ________ it shrinks like a ____________ without air.
5. My stomach is a ___________ storage _________.

My intestines

1. My small intestines are about _____ feet long.
2. My food is pushed ________ through the twists and turns of my __________ intestines.
3. My food is ___________ as it is pushed through my small intestine.
4. Digestive ______________ break my food into tiny, tiny parts.
5. The digestion here takes from ______ to ______ hours.
6. My __________ intestines gets the _________ products from my _________ intestines.
7. My large intestines are about ______ feet long.
8. Some ___________ from the waste is taken out.
9. It takes about ___________________ hours for my food to travel from my mouth to my bottom.