Body Work

4. Very delicious and sweet. A luscious chocolate cake tastes wonderful.
7. Small tubes in your body that carry blood back to your heart. You can sometimes see blue veins under your skin.
8. The soft muscle inside your mouth. You use your tongue to taste food and to speak.
9. A structure that supports something. Your skeleton is the framework of your body.
11. To break down food in your stomach so your body can use it. Your stomach helps you digest the food you eat.
12. One of two bean-shaped organs in your body that clean your blood and make urine (pee). Your kidneys remove bad things from your blood.

1. A small bubble of liquid under your skin. You get a blister when you burn your hand or wear shoes that are too tight.
2. To push a liquid (like blood) or air through something. Your heart pumps blood around your body.
3. DIOXIDE A gas that people and animals breathe out. You breathe in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide.
5. The soft outer covering of your body. Your skin protects you and lets you feel touch, heat, and cold.
6. A yellow-green liquid made by your liver. Bile helps your body break down fats from food.
10. gas in the air that people and animals need to live. You breathe in oxygen from the air.