Match the following: 1. Food pipe a. Ingestion 2. Small intestine b. Ruminants 3. Chewing of cud c. Anus 4. Intake of food d. Absorption 5. Egestion e. Oesophagus

1-e The food pipe helps to carry the chewed food from the mouth to the stomach in humans. Another name for the food pipe is the oesophagus. No digestion of food takes place in the oesophagus. 2-d The complete digestion of food occurs in the small intestine of humans. The inner surface of the small intestine has millions of villi which help in the absorption of nutrients from the digested food. 3-b In ruminants, the half-chewed food which is partially digested in the rumen of the stomach is known as cud. The cud later goes back to their mouth for further chewing. 4-a The first step of nutrition is obtaining the food through the mouth. It is known as ingestion. 5-c The water and necessary salts from the undigested food are absorbed by the walls of the large intestine. The remaining waste, i.e., faeces are removed from the body through the anus. This process is called egestion. 1. Food pipe e. Oesophagus 2. Small intestine d. Absorption 3. Chewing of cud b. Ruminants 4. Intake of food a. Ingestion 5. Egestion c. Anus