Parts of the Body
What supports the human body?
What are the bones, joints between the bones, and connective tissue (such as cartilage or ligaments)?
This is another name for the cranium.
What is the skull?
What is a joint?
What is where two bones come together?
What is the largest organ of the human body?
What is the skin?
TRUE OR FALSE.
Muscles are attached to bones and cause movement.
What is true?
What is the main feature that makes up the human body?
What is bones?
This is the bone that connects the arm to the body.
HINT: the short bone, collar bone
What is the clavicle?
What are the three types of joints? Name an example of each!
What is nearly immovable, slightly moveable, freely moveable joints?
Nearly immovable - joints
Slightly moveable - joints of the hip bones
Free moveable - knees, shoulders, wrists, or toes
What does the skin do?
What is protect the human body?
Where are muscles also found?
HINT: name internal organs!
What are the heart, stomach, intestines?
What is bone?
What is a hard material that provides support and protection of the human's body soft tissues?
This is the bone that is part of the hand.
HINT: Think about the fingers and thumbs. This bone is also located in the toes.
What is phalanges?
What are the three kinds of joint movement?
What kind of joint movement is when one bone joint rotates around another bone?
HINT: The movement of the head when a person is looking side to side.
What are the pivot, ball and socket, and hinge joints?
What is a pivot joint?
What are nerve receptors that provide information about outside conditions?
What is the patella?
The patella helps us stand up tall, walk, or climb.
Where are muscles formed from?
What is tissues?
This is the longest bone in the body?
What is the femur?
What is the name of the joint movement where the end of one bone has a ball shape to it?
HINT: the shoulder and hip joints are these kinds of joints.
What is the ball and socket joint?
Another name for the shoulder blade of the body.
What is the scapula?
How many ribs are in the body?
What are 24 ribs (12 pairs)?
What do tissues do?
HINT: These are what muscles are formed from.
What is contract, and relax, causing the muscles to move?
This is the bone of the hip. What does it do?
What is the pelvis?
Provides support for the spine and some body organs, a very stable part of the body.
What is the name of the joint where the rounded end of one bone is rounded and fits into a depression in the other bone?
HINT: This is located in the elbow and knee joints.
What is a hinge joint?
This bone is located on your face.
HINT: It is the lower area.
What is the mandible?
Your bones, muscles, and joints keep you moving and grooving. How can you take care of each of these important body parts?
HINT: There are no wrong or right answers. Share your opinion!
Examples:
Exercise
Stretching
Eating a healthy diet