gastrointestinal - Tract food physically travels in digestive system , ingestion - Taking in foodstuffs, digestion - Breaking down foodstuffs, absorption - Process when nutrients diffuse across a membrane into the blood, elimination - process when wastes are release, oral cavity - Where ingestion occurs and carbs are broken down. Digestion occurs in 3 places. This is the first location. , stomach - Digestion occurs in 3 places. This is the second location. Proteins are broken down here. , small intestine - Digestion occurs in 3 places. This is the last location. Lipids are broken down here., intestines - 2 locations where nutrients diffuse into the blood, mechanical - Type of digestion where food is physically broken down, chemical - Type of digestion where polymers are broken down in to monomers, bolus - Ball of food that is lubricated, pharynx - Throat or muscular cavity , esophagus - Food pipe made of muscle, trachea - Wind pipe made of cartilage, larynx - Voice box, gland - Organ that secretes, amylase - Enzyme that breaks down sugars, epiglottis - Muscular flap that protects the lungs by flipping down over voice box, peristalsis - Rhythmic contractions of muscle pushing food through the digestive system, mucus - Protects the stomach from digesting itself, hydrochloric acid - An acid found in the stomach, protease - An enzyme that breaks down proteins, pepsin - Another enzyme that breaks down proteins (has a different ending to the word), expansion - The stomach lining folds allowing for high surface area for this reason, sphincters - Circular muscles at the top and bottom of stomach,

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