Skeletal Functions
This mineral is stored by bones for later release into the bloodstream.
What is Calcium?
A runner who is participating in a marathon would benefit from using _____ twitch muscle fibers.
What is slow twitch muscle fibers?
This muscle is found in the chest area and is used when performing a push-up or bench press.
What is the pectoralis major? ("Pecs" is acceptable for today.)
This bone is the largest bone of the body and is the bone of the upper leg.
Femur
This body part connects bone to muscle.
What is a tendon?
How many bones are in an adult human body?
What is 206 bones?
Skeletal muscles work in pairs. When one muscle of the pair contracts, the other one ____.
What is relaxes?
This muscle is found on the back of the upper arm and is contracted when straightening the arm at the elbow.
What is the triceps?
This bone is the main bone of the upper arm.
What is the Humerus?
This body part connects bone to bone and helps keep joints from dislocating.
What is a ligament?
This type of blood cell is produced by certain bones of the skeletal system.
What is Red Blood Cells?
Name one example of a muscle for each of the 3 muscle types.
Students will have to correctly identify the 3 muscle types: cardiac, smooth and skeletal. Then, they will have to correctly provide an example for each of those three types.
The _______ are the group of muscles on the front of the thigh and the ________ are the muscles on the back of the thigh.
What is the quadriceps and hamstrings?
These are the bones of the ankle.
What are the tarsals?
This type of joint can be found where the femur meets the pelvis and also where the humerus meets the shoulder.
What is a Ball and Socket joint?
Name 3 examples of bones that are protective of other organs.
What is Cranium, Spine, Rib Cage, Pelvis, Sternum, Clavicle?
The muscular system connects to the skeleton to provide movements for the body. It also helps with posture and with pumping blood throughout the body. Describe one other function of the muscular system.
What is Generating Body Heat, Moving food through the stomach and intestines, Urination, and the Birthing Process, Breathing, Protecting the skeleton?
This muscle helps while breathing by pulling the lungs downward in order to create more space for air to come in.
What is the Diaphragm?
The ___ is the thicker bone of the lower leg and the ___ is the skinnier bone of the lower leg.
What is the tibia and the fibula? (the order you say this answer matters)
This type of joint is found in the elbows and the knees.
What is a hinge joint?
Name all 5 functions of the skeletal system discussed in class.
What is:
- Support
- Protection
- Movement
- Production of Red Blood Cells
- Mineral Storage?
During this type of muscular contraction the muscle shortens.
What is concentric contraction?
Name 2 examples of smooth muscle other than the small intestines and large intestines.
What is the blood vessels (arteries, veins, capillaries), stomach, bladder, uterus, lungs?
This bone structure is called the ______ and is made up of many individual ____________. It protects the spinal cord of the central nervous system.
The spine is made up of many individual vertebrae.
This type of joint allows a person to shake their head side to side (as if indicating "no") and also allows a person to twist their radius and ulna.
What is a pivot joint?