Skeletal System
The number of bones adults have in their body.
What is 206?
The main function of the muscular system.
What is large and small scale movements of the body?
What is Calcium?
The smallest unit of the nervous system.
What is a neuron (nerve cell)?
The function of the nervous system.
What is detect, process, and respond to information?
Without ___________, the body would be stiff and unable to bend or turn.
What is joints?
A description of cardiac muscle and where it is found in the body.
What is it contracts and relaxes to pump blood through the body and is found in the heart.
The three types of muscle tissue found in the human body.
What is smooth, skeletal, and cardiac muscle?
The organs that make up the central nervous system.
What is the brain and spinal cord?
The organs that make up the peripheral nervous system.
What is the nervers?
List the four different parts that make up the skeletal system.
What is bones, cartilage, ligaments, and joints?
A description of skeletal muscle and its function.
What is the muscle that is connected to your bones and is visible on your body that helps you lift heavy objects?
The two body parts/organs that make up the muscular system.
What is the muscles and joints?
An example of a voluntary and involuntary action of the nervous system.
What is...
Voluntary- Walking, talking, laughing, reading, writing, thinking
Involuntary- Blinking, breathing, digestion, sneezing
Axons are the long tails on nerve cells. Why is it important that these tails are so long?
What is so that they can send signals long distances around the body?
The five functions of the skeletal system.
What is structure, protection, storage, blood production, and movement?
The type of muscle tissue that moves materials through the body. Found in the stomach and bladder.
What is smooth muscle?
The difference between ligaments and tendons.
What is tendons connect muscle to bones and ligaments connect bones to other bones?
The function of the central nervous system.
The function of the peripheral nervous system?
What is to detect and respond to signals?
Describe how the skeletal system provides protection to the human body.
What is the ribcage provides protection to the heart, lungs, and internal organs and the skull protects the brain?
The type of muscle tissue found in blood vessels that helps move blood through the body.
What is smooth muscle?
How the skeletal and muscular systems work together.
What is muscles are connected to your bones and contract and relax to help the body move?
An automatic movement in response to a signal.
What is reflex?
What is information enters/is detected through the peripheral, is processed in the central, and responded to by the peripher nervous system.