Complete the story about the gastrointestinal (GI) tract using the…

Complete the story about the gastrointestinal (GI) tract using the words from the following lists. You must spell the words correctly.

amino acid
bile
buccal
canines
cardiac sphincter

chyme
colon
duodenum
esophagus
fatty acids

glucose
glycerin
hydrochloric acid
jejunum
pepsin

peptone
peristalsis
proteose
pyloric sphincter
rectum

rugae
stomach
tongue
uvula
villi

 My friends and I decided to try a new ride on the GI tract. I am Taco Corn Chip. They are Meat and Cheese. We paid admission to Ms. Lips, who looked good enough to kiss then entered the GI tract. Standing in the big ___ cavity, all around us were strange white things. They really looked like mad scientists in long white coats. We were the juicy specimens.

 

Just then the thick-muscled ___ platform started to move, pushing us up and down toward the white things, which bit and tore at us like angry ___ . Next, I was squirted with salivary amylase, which came at me through a thin tube then began to get gooey. I grabbed my friends, who also looked gooey then we started moving further back in this cavity. “Wait!” someone shouted, “grab your rain gear off the ___ rack, which hangs down from the roof at the rear of the buccal.”

 

Now, we are going down the roller coaster called ___ and find ourselves at this strange door marked ___. It slowly opened then we go inside. This ___ room is even stranger. The walls are all draped in ____ folds. Upon our arrival, we take a bath using ___. We can now proceed since we are all cleaned up. My friend Meat is hit with ___, which has him singing, “I am a peppy little ___ and ___ “. Cheese is getting softened up. A big voice announces, “You are no longer who you once were. Your name is now ___.” “Who cares,” I think, “just get me out of here.” A big tidal wave called ___ hits just then, pushing us through the exit marked ___ .

 

Now, I am really scared because this tube goes on forever. We are in the first part of it, the ___. I look around and see a slit-like opening. Look! Cheese is standing right behind me and gets a big squirt of ___ all over him. He is starting to come apart. At this point, we are being hit with all sorts of stuff that breaks us up into strange parts. I transform into ___. Meat is an ___ and Cheese is ___ and ___. What will become of us? We get pushed again into the next part of the tunnel, the ___ , and our fate is sealed. Awaiting us like a welcome mat are many little fingers called ___. They are now walking right through us, picking us apart. “Good-bye my friends,” I shout, as we get sucked up.

 

There were some pieces of us leftover. They were just shoved into a bigger tunnel, the ____ , where they were dried out then dumped out through the ____.

 

RING!! RING!! That’s my alarm clock. Oh, what a nightmare. I should not have stayed up so late studying for my GI test and stuffing myself with tacos and pizza.