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The digested food next passes into the small intestine, where the nutrients

are absorbed by the blood and transported throughout the body.

The undigested food passes through the large intestine, stay there for some

time and goes out of the body through the anus as faeces.

The Excretory System

The system through which our body waste is removed is

called the excretory system. The excretory system consists

of a pair of kidneys, a pair of lungs and the skin.

Kidneys remove waste from the blood in the form of urine.

Skin removes waste in the form of sweat. Lungs remove
carbon dioxide from our body when we breathe out.

Excretory System
Did You
The Reproductive System Know? 70% of the waste in the human

The reproductive system helps in body is removed through the
lungs simply by breathing.
producing young ones. Life continues

because of this system.

Amazing The only human organs that can float in water are the lungs, which keep 1 litre
Facts of air in the airways no matter how hard we exhale.

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