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Skin.

About 16 pages (4,766 words)

Science Weekly, November 12th, 1997

Skin covers your whole body from head to toe. It is about as thick as a stack of 8 sheets of notebook paper and weighs about 8 pounds. Your skin keeps your body parts together and protects you from germs and the sun's harmful rays. It even helps control your body's temperature. It can also tell you when there is a fly on your arm or a rock on your toe! Your skin is made up of 2 layers called the epidermis (ep i der' mis) and the dermis. Epidermis (The Outer Layer) New skin cells are formed at the bottom of the epidermis. As these new cells grow, they push the older skin cells closer to the s...

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