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?
Word Bank
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Descending
Esophogus
Liver
Small intestine
Assimilate
Gall bladder
Villi
Gastric juices
•Cardiac
•Transverse
•Tongue
•Pancreas
•Pyloric
•Hepatic duct
•Ascending
•Saliva
•Mouth
•Swallow
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•Two
•Peristaltic
•Appendix
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 ____________.
5. The two openings at either end of the stomach
are ____________ and _____________.
6. The _________ carries substances from the
liver.
7. Villi in the small intestine _________ the
dissolved food.
8. The colon has three main divisions:
__________, __________, and __________.
9. Enzymes in _________ help begin
digestion in the mouth.
10. The tongue helps to _________ food.
11. The liver has _________ lobes.
12. __________ movements help in digestion.
13. The __________ serves no known useful
purpose.
How You Digest Food
Describe the role of each part of the digestive
system in the process of digesting food.
1. Teeth
6. Pancreas
2. Salivary Glands 7. Liver
3. Esophagus
8. Large Intestine
4. Stomach
9. Rectum
5. Small intestine