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Question
Fill in the blanks using the words listed below.
| water, front, intestinal, salts, pseudopodia, back, vacuole |
- The digestion of all food components is completed by the ______ juice.
- Large intestine absorbs ______ and some ______ from the undigested food.
- Tongue is attached at the ______ to the floor of the mouth cavity and is free at the ______.
- Amoeba pushes out ______ around the food and traps it in a food ______.
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Solution
- The digestion of all food components is completed by the intestinal juice.
- Large intestine absorbs water and some salts from the undigested food.
- Tongue is attached at the back to the floor of the mouth cavity and is free at the front.
- Amoeba pushes out pseudopodia around the food and traps it in a food vacuole.
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