Skeleton
What type of substances do bones store?
minerals and fat
What type of muscles are digestive muscles?
smooth
Skin does not prevent water loss, True or False?
False
which system is the largest system of the three?
integumentary
which system protects organs?
The three of them
Skeletal system gives shape to the body, True or False?
True
What is a tendon?
Type of connective tissue that helps the skeletal and muscular system work together.
Which layer of skin give us our skin tone?
Epidermis
which one has close to 600 components?
muscular
What system makes up half of an adult's weight?
Muscular system
What two minerals are needed for bones to grow strong?
Calcium and phosphorus
Muscles are made up of what?
fibers
In the skin, what helps insulate our body and filter foreign particles? Name it and mention where it grows from. (hint: it grows all over our body, except for the palms of our hands and the soles of our feet.
Hair, follicles
In what system is vitamin D produced and it what system is used.
Mention the four parts of the bone and define spongy bone.
Skeletal, smooth and cardiac. Located all over the body, inside many internal organs, the heart. Examples student's answers.
What is the function of the pores? How does the skin help maintain homeostasis in the body?
Pores are connected to glands in our skin to release oils and sweat onto the surface of our skin.
This process allow our body to control temperature and not overheat, as sweat helps cools down the body when is hot.
which one of the systems provide protection?
the three: skeletal, muscular, and skin
What systems helps blood circulate and how this system is related to the integumentary system?
Muscular system, the muscles and the skin work together allowing the body to move and protect them from outside pathogens. Also they work in sync to help the body regulate the temperature when exercising.
How is the skeletal system related to the muscular and the integumentary system.
Student's answers
Mention the four types of joints and give one example in the body of each.
Hinge, ball and socket, gliding and pivot
Examples, students answers.
These questions related to the three systems:
1) What can happen to your skin, if you expose to the sun with no protection for extended periods of time? 2) What is osteoporosis? 3) Explain why muscles work pairs in order to move the bones.
1) This can cause cancer.
2) Damage to bones where they lose strenghth and become weak and breakable.
3) they pull in pairs, one relaxes while the other contracts, example the biceps and triceps.
which system produces blood?
which system helps eliminate waste?
Skeletal
integumentary
Mention one thing you can do to help maintain and support the good health of each of the three systems
Skeletal- diet rich in calcium and phosphorus, exercise.
Muscular- exercise, streching, diet high in protein.i
Integumentary- limit sun exposure, moisturize body, diet.