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Everyone Cries Sometimes Crying is natural! Sometimes crying gets the sadness out, and after a good cry, we feel better. There is a good reason for this. Tears contain some special ingredients that make you feel better.
Happy Tears
When people have a lot of happy feelings inside, that can bring out the tears, too. Circle the things that sometimes make you cry happy tears.
Your eyes always have tears. There are special glands near your eyes that make tears. Most of the time, they Why do tears come out of my eyes?
make just enough to keep our eyes clean and healthy. If something gets in your eye, more tears are made that rinse your eyes and remove what shouldn’t be there.
Lacrimal sac
A happy ending in a movie or book
Lacrimal gland
What’s in tears? Use the code!
Sclera
Lacrimal canal Caruncle
1 2 3
= = =
A E I
4 5 6
= = =
L O R
7 8 9
= = =
S T W
Pupil
Seeing a family member who lives far away
Iris
Lacrimal duct
9 1 8 2
6
7 1 4 8 5 3 4
5 3 4
9 1 8 2 6
Laughing with your friends
Winning an award
Brain to Glands! A part of your brain turns the “tear faucet” off and on. This happens when you feel strong emotions—happy and sad. Your eye glands can produce more than half a cup of tears in minutes. This is too much for the eye glands to hold, so the overflow tears fall out of your eyes. Sometimes, overflowing tears go down your nose. That’s why when you cry, your nose might run.
Circle every other letter to discover what the glands that make the tears that flow to your eyes are called. BLVANCTRWIKMPAJLSGULMAZNYDTS
Standards Link: Life Science: Understand that humans have structures that aid in survival.
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