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Our Body
By Yvonne Brand
What am I?
I am a narrow, 7 metre long
tube.
I absorb nutrients and put them
into your blood.
What am I?
I belong to the digestive and
respiratory systems.
I control the air that goes to the
lungs and the food that goes from
the mouth to the oesophagus.
What am I?
Foods mix with gastric juices
inside me.
What are we?
We make saliva to mix with
food.
What am I?
I take undigested food and turn
it into faeces.
What are we?
We make saliva to mix with
food.
What are we?
We are two organs that filter
your blood and eliminate waste
substances.
What are we?
We are small holes in the skin
and sweat comes out of us.
What are we?
We are two tubes that come
out of each kidney.
 We take urine from your
kidneys to your bladder.
What are we?
We are inside the nose.
We heat and moisten the air
you breathe in.
What am I?
I am the tube that takes urine
out of your body.
What am I?
I am a cavity that connects
your pharynx to your windpipe.
The vocal chords are here
What am I?
I am a bag where urine is stored
before being expelled outside
the body.
What am I?
I am a flat muscle under your
lungs.
I take part in the breathing
process.
What am I?
I am a tube of about 10 cm
long.
I split into two bronchi.
When you breathe, air travels
through me to your lungs.
What are we?
We are two tubes that connect
your windpipe to your lungs.
What are we?
We are two spongy pink organs.
We are protected by your ribs and
sternum.
We take oxygen and put it in your blood.
We take carbon dioxide and send it out
of your body.
What are we?
We are two small tubes
with round ends inside your
lungs.
What are we?
Blood circulates through
our tubes.
What am I?
I am a red liquid.
I am made up of red blood
cells, white blood cells and
platelets.
What are we?
We take the blood from
the heart to the rest of the
body.
What are we?
We are very thin vessels.
We connect arteries and
veins.
What am I?
I am in charge of pumping
the blood to the whole
body.
I am a muscle behind your
lungs.