Skeletal System
The outer layer of bone.
What is periosteum?
Sends signals to bundled muscle fibers.
Connects the left and right hemispheres of the brain, so they can communicate with one another.
What is the corpus callosum?
Chemicals live in this area to deliver messages from one neuron to the next.
What is a synapse?
Our skin makes sweat when we're hot and goosebumps when we're cold, which is one of its many tasks.
What is controls body temperature?
One of the 5 main functions of the skeletal system that holds onto nutrients such as calcium, magnesium, and phosphorus.
What is storage?
Voluntary muscles until a reflex is needed and then it becomes involuntary.
What are skeletal muscles?
In the brain stem and helps with breathing, swallowing, blood pressure, and heart rate.
What is the Medulla Oblongata?
Parts that deliver messages to and away from the cell body.
What are dendrites and an axon?
Contains blood vessels.
What are the Dermis and Hypodermis?
The name of your finger and toe bones.
What are phalanges?
Lines our intestines to automatically digest our food, and other certain organs, like the uterus.
What is smooth muscle?
What is the Temporal Lobe?
The outer ear gathers sound waves that vibrate tiny bones and fluid which sends the impulse to the brain.
What is hearing?
Pigment that can block the harmful rays of sun.
What is melanin?
Bones are more likely to break when you're older because they have more ____ bone and less ____ bone.
What is spongy and compact?
Necessary for activities such as leaning and/or posture.
What are slow twitch fibers?
Controls analytical thought, numbers, logic, reasoning, language.
Receives and responds to information from inside and outside of body.
What is the function of the Nervous System?
Viral infections, stress, hormones, allergies, injuries to the mouth, and immune system problems.
What are causes of a canker sore?
What are growth plates?
Muscles shorten and lengthen.
What is contract and relax?
In charge of taking two crossed visual images (an image from each eye) and making them one complete picture for the brain to understand.
What is the Optic Tract?
Our bodies respond to light, sound, heat, chemicals, and pressure through our five senses.
What are stimuli?
Sharing food and cosmetics, kissing, and any mouth or fact contact.
What is spreading cold sores, or herpes?