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Discover How Nutrients Are Transported Around Our Body

In this worksheet, students will be able to consolidate their understanding of the circulatory system and its role in delivering nutrients and water around the body.

'Discover How Nutrients Are Transported Around Our Body' worksheet

Key stage:  KS 2

Year:  Year 6 Science worksheets

Curriculum topic:   Animals, including Humans

Curriculum subtopic:   Transport of Water and Nutrients within Animals

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Worksheet Overview

You have studied a great deal about the workings of the human body throughout your Key Stage 2 science course. This topic is going to pull a few of those strands together and examine how our digestive and circulatory systems link together to make sure that all the hardworking cells across our body receive what they need to keep them working.

 

Human circulation

 

We'll revisit the digestion of food within the gut and how the digested nutrients are absorbed across the gut wall and into the bloodstream.

 

Intestine wall

 

We'll examine how the dissolved nutrients, in the blood plasma, are carried to every cell in the body, through the system of arteries and capillaries, ensuring that each one receives the energy it needs in order to be able to operate.

 

blood vessels

 

Finally, we'll also touch on what happens to the wastes, like carbon dioxide and urea, that the cells create as they operate, and how those wastes are carried to certain organs to be removed from the body.

 

So, are you ready for this journey? Let's see where it goes!

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