| A | B |
|---|
| Mouth | Where saliva is added to food |
| Saliva | Lubricates food and chemically digests it in the mouth |
| Salivary glands | Produce amylase |
| Teeth | Mechanically digest food in the mouth |
| Esophagus | Carries food to the stomach |
| Peristalsis | Wave of muscle contractions which pushes a bolus of food down the digestive tract |
| Stomach | Where food is stored, digested and sterilised |
| Bacteria | Killed by acids in the stomach |
| Hydrochloric Acid | Type of acid in the stomach |
| Mechanical | Type of digestion carried out in the stomach when the muscular wall contracts and churns up the food |
| Amylase | Type of enzyme secreted by the pancreas to aid in digestion |
| Small intestine | Where nutrients are absorbed into the blood |
| Villi | Structures which increase the surface area of the small intestine |
| Lipase | The enzyme which digests fats; made in pancreas |
| Pancreas | Produces lipase, trypsin, and amylase |
| Enzymes | Chemical that speeds up a chemical reaction |
| Bile | made by the liver and stored in the gall bladder |
| Large intestine | water is absorbed here and bacteria changes wastes into feces |
| Liver | Large organ which breaks down poisons and produces bile |
| Gall bladder | Stores bile |
| Stomach | Organ above the pancreas |
| Amylase | Enzyme which converts starch to maltose |
| Part of the Alimentary Canal | mouth |
| The length of a frog's alimentary canal | 1 foot |
| The length of a human's alimentary canal | 30 feet |
| Diffusion | the process of a substance passing through a semi permeable membrane |
| Pytalin | enzyme found in saliva |
| Starches | Pytalin begins to digest this |
| Pepsin | Enzyme that works to digest food with the Hydrochloric acid in your stomach |
| Proteins | Pepsin begins to digest this |
| Chyme | thick, soup-like mixture that leaves your stomach |
| Appendix | Place where small and large intestine connect |
