Bones
Before birth, your skeleton is made of this
What is cartilage?
These are joints found in your hips and shoulders.
What are ball and socket joints?
Voluntary muscles have these
What are striations?
Tissue that cushions bones
What is cartilage?
Outermost layer
Outer covering of bones
What is the periosteum?
Elbow and knee joints are these type
What are hinge joints?
Striated and involuntary
What are cardiac muscles (the heart)?
Tissue that holds bones to bones
What are ligaments?
What is the dermis?
Bone tissue is broken down by bone cells called these
What are osteoclasts?
These joints are found in your upper neck
What are pivot joints?
Non striated and involuntary muscles are called this and are found here
What are smooth muscles that are found in the intestines and other organs
Tissues that hold bones to muscles
What are tendons?
Pigment that gives skin color
What is melanin?
Produces blood cells in bones
What is marrow?
These joints are the type of joint found in your carpels and tarsels.
What are gliding joints?
When you bend your arm, one of a pair of muscles relaxes, while the other does this
What is contracts?
Your largest organ
What is your skin?
The layer below the dermis
What is subcutaneous or fatty layer?
These are the 3 of the 5 functions of the skeletal system
What are
Gives shape and support to your body
Protect internal organs
Muscles attach to bones
Blood cells are formed in many bones
Calcium and phosphorus are stored in bones
This joint is found where your ulna and radius meet your humerus.
What is a pivot joint?
Muscles always work together in this way
In pairs
Your dermis is full of important structures. Name at least 4 of them
What are -
Nerves, blood vessels, glands, hair follicles
These are the 3 of the 5 functions of the skin
What are
Protection
Sensation
Regulate Body Temperature
Formation of Vitamin D
Rids the body of some wastes