When you eat meal, you are sending the food on a long journey through the digestive tract. This long tube joins your mouth to your stomach and then coils and winds its way through the trunk of your…
You know about the world around you only because your body has senses. There are five main senses - touch, smell, taste, hearing, and sight. These are known as your external sensory system because …
Put one of your hands flat on the middle of your chest. Just a few inches below the plam of your hand - under a thin layer of skin, muscle, and bone - is your heart. You might even be able to feel …
All human activities - smiling at a friend, running for a bus, writing a note, standing up straigh, swallowing food, and the regular beating of the heart - have something in common. These, and many…
The skeketon is often seen as a symbol of death. Bony forms dance on Halloween costumes, and pirate flags bear askull and crossbones. Skeletons are thought of as samething to be frigtened of, to ke…
Every country in the world has a government. The government makes laws that control the country, so that people can live together in peace. Without a government there would be chaos.
The Human Skeleton, by the time it is fully formed in the teenage years, is made up of around 206 bones of different shapes and sizes. These bones link together to from the skeleton, which shapes …
Humans can survive without food or water for a shot time, but no-one can take a break from breatihing. Breathing moves “fresh” air into, and S’stale” air out of, the body. The air that s…
We know about the world because we can see, hear, touch, smell and taste. These five senses are the gateway though which we experience everything that happens around us. The eyes, ears, skin, nos…
he brain only weighs about 1.4 kilograms, but it controls our movement, keeps the body functioning properly and lets us understand and communicate with the world around us.