Digestion and Nutrition Unit

Match the following

Organize these options into the right categories

Teeth (32), tongue (taste buds), salivary glands (amylase digests starches)

"Switch" or cartilagenous flap that opens to allow air into the lungs, and closes to allow food and liquids into the digestive tract

Muscular tube leading from the mouth to the stomach. Uses peristalsis to move food.

"C" shaped sack containing strong acid, digests proteins, contains rugae (hills and valleys) and a mucus lining.

A ball of food traveling from the mouth to the stomach.

Squeezing motion that allows food to move through the digestive system

Food from the stomach that acid has been added to

Produced in the liver, this is a base that counteracts stomach acid, and digests fats