Integumentary System
The skin is made up of this type of tissue.
What is epithelial tissue?
The movement of muscles working to decrease the angle of a joint.
What is flexion?
Substance that transports nutrients throughout the body and carries wastes to be excreted from the body.
What is blood?
A structure in the skin that is responsible for cooling down the body.
What is a sweat gland?
The knee and elbow are examples of this type of joint.
What is a "hinge" joint?
Type of muscle you can only find in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
What chlorophyll is for the leaves, ________is for the skin.
What is melanin?
This is the body's biggest muscle.
What is gluteus maximus?
What is the pericardium?
The two bones of the forearm.
What are the radius and ulna?
Cells that are found in the epidermis that produces the skin pigment.
What are melanocytes?
The longest bone in the human body.
What is the femur bone?
Fibrous tissue that connects the calf to the calcaneus.
What is the Achilles tendon?
A small muscle attached to every hair in the skin responsible for "goosebumps".
What is pili (or erector pili) muscle?
The only bone that is not attached to any other bone.
What is the hyoid?
The V-shaped muscle found in the neck that enables the movement of the head.
What is sternocleidomastoid?
They are the three main formed elements in the blood.
What are red blood cells, white blood cells and platelets.
The three bones of the inner ear.