| A | B |
|---|
| chemical digestion | chemicals break down food into molecules the body can use |
| esophagus | tube from mouth to stomach |
| Amylase | enzyme found in saliva, turns starches into sugars |
| chyme | churned/mixed food going through stomach into small intestine |
| pepsin | an enzyme, breaks proteins into smaller ploypeptide fragments |
| peristalsis | forces food(bolis) down the esophagus to the stomach, made of smooth muscle |
| villi | fingerlike projections, located in the small intestine absorbs nutrients |
| large intestine | removes water from the undigested materials |
| small intestine | where digestive enzymes enter the intestine where chem. /absorbtion occurs |
| stomach | large muscular sac, contains chemical to add digestion |
| mechanical digestion | happens in the mouth, chewing the start of digestion |
