Skeletal System
These bones protect the heart and the lungs.
What are the ribs?
The heart is called an involuntary muscle because of this
What is never stops contracting to pump blood through out the body?
These structures connect bone to bone, providing joint stability.
What is a ligament?
These bones are found in the WRIST.
Carpals
Moving a limb away from the body's midline is called this.
Abduction
Name the three bones of the arm
what are humerus, ulna and radius
What are the two types of isotonic contractions?
eccentric & concentric
This type of joint allows you to turn your head from side to side.
What is a pivot joint?
Some call this bone the knee.
What is the Patella?
This strong joint only allows movement in one plane of motion.
What is a hinge joint?
Name the three bones of the leg.
What are the tibia, fibula, and femur.
This muscle or group of muscles passively assists the prime mover of a joint.
What is the antagonist muscle?
During a bicep curl, what movement occurs at the elbow?
Flexion
This part of the skeleton includes the bones of the limbs, as well as the pectoral and pelvic girdles.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
This Muscle type is only found in one organ
what are cardiac muscle cells?
This type of joint allows movement in almost every direction.
Ball & Socket
These are the three types of muscles.
What are the cardiac, smooth and skeletal muscles?
This muscle type is attached to your bones and allows you to move and have voluntary control of your movement.
What is the skeletal muscle?
Name 3 functions of the skeletal system
support, protection and movement, mineral storage blood cell production, hormone regulation
During a squat, which joint action occurs at the hip as you stand up?
What includes the skull, spine and ribcage.
What is the axial skeleton?
This structure connects muscle to bone
Tendon
This type of muscle contraction produces force without changing muscle length.
isometric contraction
I am a small, triangular bone at the base of the spine.
What is the coccyx?
What are the 5 types of bones?
flat, irregular, sesmoid, long, short