Chapter 1
What is in the skeletal system?
Bones
What can you drink to give your bones calcium and make them strong?
Milk
What do muscles do, why are they important?
They help us move.
What are some joints in your body?
elbow shoulder knee
Does the human body have more bones, muscles, or nerves?
Nerves
What is the purpose of our skeletal system?
To give our body shape.
Where can you find Marrow Cells?
Inside Bones
What are voluntary muscles?
Cartilage is found between bones. It's function is to ____ the bones so they won't bang together.
cushion
What do nerves do to help us keep track of what's happening in the world around us?
By sending messages to your brain.
What is the function of the rib cage?
To protect organs like our heart and lungs.
An X-Ray is a ____.
Picture of the inside of your body.
Picture of your bones.
What are involuntary muscles?
Muscles that move on their own without us thinking about it.
Ligaments connect bones to____.
bones
Name some things you could not do if your body had no nerves?
feel, see, hear, smell, touch
The name of our shoulder blade bone is?
The scapula.
Why is cartilage important to bones?
Protects them, keeps them from banging together, helps bones last longer.
What types of muscles do we use to digest food?
Involuntary muscles
The Achilles tendon connects_____.
the heel bone to the calf muscle
When one of the nerves in your body wants to send a message to your brain, it sends the message out along the_____
dendrites
Show me your tibia and fibula.
Tibia-Shin bone
Fibula- outside leg
What are the three types or kinds of joints?
Moveable, Immovable, Partially Movable.
About how many muscles do we have in our body?
650
Tendons connect _______.
Muscles to bones
Why does the doctor tap your knee with a hammer during a checkup?
to check your reflexes