natural

Can you name the parts of the digestive system?

Mouth Esophagus
Food is broken up by the teeth Food goes down this tube
and mixed with saliva by the to the stomach.
tongue.

Small intestine
There are lots of blood Stomach
vessels. Nutrients pass Gastric juices make
into the blood. the food into a thick
liquid.
Large intestine
The waste passes through.
Water goes out into the
body and the waste Anus
becomes harder. The waste, called faeces,
leaves the body.
Can you label the parts of the digestive system?

Kidneys
When the blood goes
Ureters
through here, excess
The urine goes down these
water and waste products
tubes to the bladder.
are dropped off and made
into urine.

Bladder
Urethra The urine is stored here.
The urine leaves the When it is full it sends a
body through this message to our brain.
tube.
What’s the difference between veins and arteries?

Veins Arteries
They return the blood They carry blood (with
(with waste) back to oxygen) from the
the heart. heart to the rest of
our bodies.

What do you think

the one-way valves
are for?
They prevent the
blood from going in
the opposite
direction!
Do you know where does oxygen pass to and
from the blood?

At the alveoli, through the

capillaries!
Can you order this sequence?

3 1 2
What happened to the cat?

Its nervous and locomotor systems were in action!

1. He saw a dog.

2. Its eyes sent a message

to its brain.

3. Its brain sent an order to

its locomotor system.

4. It ran away!
From egg to baby

1 An egg is fertilised by a sperm.

From egg to baby

The egg divides again and again and becomes attached

2 to the wall of the uterus.
From egg to baby

An embryo develops. At six weeks old it is about the size of a

3 small seed. Nutrients and oxygen travel from the mother to
the embryo along the umbilical cord.
From egg to baby

4 The embryo becomes a fetus at nine weeks. It’s about the size of
an olive. It has arms and legs and it starts to have a face.
From egg to baby

At three months it has all its organs. It’s about the size of an
5 avocado.
From egg to baby

6 At nine months it is ready to be born… is it a boy or a girl?

From egg to baby

7 The baby moves headfirst down the vagina and comes out into the world.
It is born. The umbilical cord is cut and becomes the belly button and the
baby breathes on its own and gets nutrients from its mother’s milk.
Can you label the female reproductive system?

ovaries uterus

fallopian tubes vagina

Can you label the male reproductive system?

testicles
urethra

penis