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Text Box: “Excretory” System
Text Box: How “It” Works: • Get instructions from brain • Helps control amount of salt in body • Breaks down protein • More sweat comes out when you’re hot • Expel carbon dioxide from lungs • Helps keep internal body healthy (homeostasis) What body parts are included/how: • Liver-protect body by extracting poison in blood • Sweat glands-replaces dead skin with new skin • Lungs- expels carbon dioxide • Kidney-filters out wastes in blood What system needs to work properly: • Eat balance of 6 major food groups • Drink lots of fluids • Exercise • Get plenty of rest Interesting facts and information: • 5% of what comes in comes out • When you have 16 oz. in bladder have to use bathroom How system prevents diseases: • By filtering out wastes
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Text Box: Bibliography: The Excretory System by Alvin, Virginia, and Robert Silverstein, ã1994, The Digestive and The Excretory System by Susan Dudley Gold,ã2004, Discovery Works by Houghton Mifflin Co.,ã1999
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