This Body System...
...provides support and rigidity to the body and stores calcium.
What is the skeletal system?
This is the most freely movable joint in the body.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
This is how bones are divided into categories.
What is the bone’s shape?
This is the most common cause of mutual muscle atrophy.
What is lack of exercise?
This type of human tissue covers and lines body parts.
What is epithelial tissue?
... carries food, water, and oxygen to and from the cells,
What is the cardiovascular system?
This type of joint allows only back and forth movement in a single plane, like the elbow and knee.
What are hinge joints?
These are the 2 broad divisions of the skeletal system.
What are axial and appendicular?
This type of involuntary muscle is not striated.
What is smooth?
This body cavity contains the heart and lungs.
What is the thoracic or chest cavity?
... protects the body from disease.
What is the immune system?
This fibrous tissue connects bones to other bones.
What are ligaments?
This type of bone is lightweight and porous and consists of an intricate network of tiny struts and girders.
What is spongy?
These shoulder muscles pull your shoulders back and help you pull your head up.
What are trapezius?
These are the reason a newborn can receive brain damage from a head injury more easily than an adult.
What are the fontanels?
...coordinates the activities of the body.
What is the nervous system?
This type of joint allows only rotating movement, like your neck.
What is a pivot joint?
This arm bone is closest to the thumb.
What is the radius?
This tough, translucent sheath surrounds the skeletal muscle and binds it together.
What is the fascia?
This is the nonliving material in tissues.
What is the matrix?
...produces hormones that regulate the body’s activities.
What is the endocrine system?
This simplest type of joint has one bone sliding across the surface of another like between the ribs and sternum.
What are gliding joints?
This is the long straight shaft of a long bone.
What is diaphysis?
This is the contraction machinery of muscle cells found in long cylinders.
What are myofibrils?
This group of muscle cells connect to a single motor neuron.
What is a motor unit?