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The Heart and Lungs
  • By Sarina
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The Heart
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About the Heart
  • Your lungs get blood by the pumping of the heart.
  • The heart is divided into two halves.
  • There’s 62,000 miles of blood vessels in your body.
  • In 30 seconds the heart pumps blood all around the body.
  • Your pulse can be felt on your wrist, neck, heart and many other places.
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The Lungs
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About the Lungs
  • Your lungs breath air to supply the body with oxygen.
  • You breath though your mouth and nose.
  • When you breath in air the air goes down a tube called a windpipe.
  • Red blood cells pick up oxygen and carries it around the body.
  • When you breath in your diaphragm goes down.
  • If you breath in to quickly your diaphragm contracts to quickly and you hiccup.
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Other Systems
  • Red blood cells live for 4 months.
  • The skull is made from 29 separate bones.
  • Your skin keeps your body together.
  • 200 muscles out of 650 muscles in your body are used to walk.
  • The food the body needs is broken down by the digestive system.
  • There are three kinds of waste that your body produces that must leave the body.
  • The reproductive system is different in boys and girls.
  • The nervous system is the communication network in the body.
  • The senses in your body are touch, see, hear, smell, and taste.
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Resources
  • http://www.firebird.cn/wiki/Heart


  • http://news.bbc.co.uk/furniture/in_depth/health/2000/heart_disease/heart_diagram.gif


  • http://www.aduk.org.uk/lungs_diagram.php


  • The Human Body by Dr. Luise Dillner