The Skeleton Crew
The hard structure inside your body helps you stand up and protect your organs.
What are bones?
These help you move by pulling on your bones.
What are muscles?
This sense helps you see colors, shapes, and movement.
What is sight?
Hormones travel through this liquid in your body.
What is blood?
These special cells carry messages through your body.
What are Neurons?
This mineral makes bones strong and keeps them healthy.
What is Calcium?
This muscle pumps blood through your body.
What is the heart?
This organ controls and processes all your senses.
What is the brain?
This gland in your neck controls how fast your body uses energy.
What is the thyroid gland?
Nerve messages travel as tiny electrical this.
What are impusles?
A strong, flexible connective tissue that protects your joints and bones.
What is cartilage?
This type of muscle is attached to bones and helps you run and jump.
What is skeletal muscle?
These tiny bumps on your tongue help you taste.
What are taste buds?
This “master gland” controls many other glands in the body.
What is the pituitary gland?
This part of the nervous system describes your brain and spinal cord working together.
What is the Central Nervous System?
A soft, spongy tissue inside bones that is the body's blood cell factory.
What is Bone Marrow?
These muscles work without you having to think about them, like when you breathe.
What are involuntary or smooth muscles?
When you touch something hot, this type of response makes you pull away quickly without thinking.
What is a reflex?
These glands sit on top of your kidneys and help with stress.
What are adrenal glands?
This part of the nervous system connects the brain and spinal cord to the rest of the body.
What is the peripheral nervous system?
What is Osteoporosis?
This is the name for when muscles work together in pairs, where one contracts and the other relaxes.
What are muscle pairs (or antagonistic muscles)?
This part of the brain helps control balance and movement.
What is the cerebellum?
This small gland in your brain helps control your sleep cycle.
The protective covering around some axons that helps messages travel faster.
What is myelin sheath?