What’s on the Excretory System poster
A definition and 5 facts worth remembering.
Filters waste out of the blood and removes it, keeping the body's water and salt in balance.
- The kidneys filter your entire blood supply about 40 times a day.
- You have two kidneys but can live with one.
- Sweat removes waste and cools you at the same time.
- The lungs excrete carbon dioxide.
- The bladder can hold roughly half a litre.
- Main parts — kidneys, bladder
- kidneys · bladder · ureters · skin · lungs
Cleans up after the digestive and circulatory systems.
Questions about the Excretory System poster
- What’s on the Excretory System poster?
- A definition and 5 facts worth remembering. Filters waste out of the blood and removes it, keeping the body's water and salt in balance. The kidneys filter your entire blood supply about 40 times a day.; You have two kidneys but can live with one.; Sweat removes waste and cools you at the same time.; The lungs excrete carbon dioxide.; The bladder can hold roughly half a litre.; Main parts — kidneys, bladder; kidneys · bladder · ureters · skin · lungs. Cleans up after the digestive and circulatory systems.
- Who is the Excretory System poster for?
- Excretory System is filed under 5th Grade (ages 10–11), so it matches what that year asks a child to remember. It is equally useful to an older student revisiting science, and to the parent or teacher answering the question at the kitchen table.
- When should you use the Excretory System poster?
- Point to where this system is on your own body as you read each fact. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Excretory System belongs on the wall where that science work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.
- What other posters go with Excretory System?
- Circulatory System, Digestive System and Immune System sit alongside Excretory System in the 5th Grade set. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Circulatory SystemDigestive SystemImmune System
- Is the Excretory System poster free to download and print?
- Yes. Excretory System downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the 5th Grade set. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence
- What size does the Excretory System poster print at?
- Excretory System is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Excretory System loses nothing.Printing guide
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