Skeletal System
Two hip bones
What is the pelvis?
Long extension of a neuron that transmits messages
What is an axon?
Where two or more bones connect
What are joints?
These help you interact with surroundings
What are the five senses?
The hemisphere associated with language, speech, and math
What is the left hemisphere?
Long, short, flat, irregular
What are the four classifications of bone?
The three neuron types
What are sensory, motor, association?
These make up 40% of body weight, are attached to bone, and striated
What are skeletal muscles?
Opening in eye where light enters
What is the pupil?
The three parts of the brain
What are the brain stem, cerebellum, and cerebrum?
Marrow, spongy bone, compact bone, periosteum
What are the four layers of bone?
The two systems make up our nervous system
What are the central and peripheral?
These react automatically and tire slowly
What are smooth muscles?
Transparent layer of cells that light travels through
What is the cornea?
Part of the brain involved in balance and muscle tone/movement
What is the cerebellum?
Their purpose is to send and receive messages electrically
What are neurons?
Bones of the appendages
What is the appendicular skeleton?
Short branched extensions of neuron that receives messages
What are dendrites?
These are the four types of joints
What are ball and socket, hinge, pivot, gliding?
The three bones of the inner ear
What are the hammer, anvil, and stirrup?
Part of the brain that controls reflexes, involuntary actions, and sleep/wake cycles
What is the brain stem?
Bones that keep your body upright
What is the axial skeleton?
It protects and insulates axons
What is the myelin sheath?
These are the three groups of joints
What are immovable, partially moveable, and moving joints
The snail shaped organ, filled with fluid
What is the cochlea?
Part of the brain that detects sounds, smells, sight, taste, pain, and temperature
What is the cerebrum?