These bone cells build the bone matrix.
What are osteoblasts?
What type of joint is found in the skull and allows little or no movement?
What are fibrous joints?
How many bones are in the human body?
What is 206?
What minerals do bones store?
What are calcium and phosphorus?
What is the femur?
These cells break down bone.
These joints allow slight movement and are connected by cartilage.
What are cartilaginous joints?
The skull, ribs, and vertebrae are a part of which skeleton?
What is the axial skeleton?
What is the soft tissue inside bones that produces red and white blood cells?
What is bone marrow?
What are at least two other systems the skeletal system interacts with?
What are the circulatory, muscular, and/or immune system?
Mature bone cells maintain bone tissue.
What are osteocytes?
These joints allow the most movement and contain fluid.
What are synovial joints?
Which skeleton contain the femur, clavicle, and ulna?
What is the appendicular skeleton?
What bone protects the brain?
What do tendons do?
What is attach muscles to bones?
These stem cells found in bone marrow produce blood cells.
What are hematopoietic cells?
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
What is the primary purpose of the axial skeleton?
What is the support and protection of vital organs?
What is the muscular system?
Why is the skeletal system considered the foundation of all other systems?
What is because it supports, protects, and interacts with nearly every other system?
What is the main function of osteoclasts during bone remodeling?
What is breaking down old or damaged bone tissue?
What is the type of synovial joint found in the thumb that allows side-to-side and back-and-forth movement?
What is a saddle joint?
What is the purpose of the appendicular skeleton?
What is acting as a muscle attachment point and housing red marrow for red blood cell production?
List four main functions of the skeletal system.
What are support, protection, blood cell production, growth, and/or mineral storage?
Why is the skeletal system the most important in the human body?
What is because it acts as the foundation and structural support and protection for all the other systems?