Muscular System
Name the three types of muscles found in the body.
2 types of skeletons in the body:
What is axial and appendicular?
Bonus: name a bone from each type of skeleton
This structure attaches bones to other bones.
What are ligaments?
This is about how many muscles that are found in an adult body.
What is about 650?
Infants have over ________ bones in their body.
What is 300?
These types of muscles control involuntary actions such as digesting food, breathing and cycling waste from the body.
What is smooth muscles?
Adults have _________ bones in their body.
What is 206?
This structure attaches muscles to bones.
What are tendons?
Name the largest joint found in the body.
Anterior cruciate ligament found here.
What is the knee joint?
These types of muscles contain the most striations because they are used thousands of times each day.
What is cardiac?
The _____________ is a coating on the bones that is rich in calcium.
What is periosteum?
This part associated with the bones as a shock absorber to dampen the areas between bones.
What is cartilage?
Bonus: Give an example of something made of cartilage.
Muscles make up about __________ % of the bodies overall weight.
A. 10
B. 20
C. 40
D. 60
What is C. about 40%?
Look at the following picture on the board:
What type of muscle cell is this?
What is skeletal?
Bonus: look at the second picture: What type of muscle cell is this?
This is the part of the bone where blood cells are created for the body.
What is bone marrow?
Bonus: Name the type of cancer that normally affects kid's bone marrow...
__________________ muscle movements are ones that we can control.
What is voluntary?
Bonus: Give and example of a voluntary action.
This is the area where the bodies smallest bones are found.
What is the ear?
Bonus: Name 1 bone found in the ear.
The sliding filament theory explains how muscles contract and lengthen. The fibers responsible for this are:
What are actin and myosin?
This is the type of bone that is flexible and allow a small amount of bending to help the body move. Examples of these types of bones could be the ribs or vertebrae.
What is spongy bone?
Involuntary muscle movements are vital for homeostasis of the body. Give 2 examples of involuntary muscle movements.
What are: digesting food, removing waste from the body, heart beating, breathing, etc....
This is the strongest muscle in the human body.
(hint...think alligator or crocodile)
What is the masseter or jaw muscle? (mouth muscle)