Axial skeleton
This skeleton runs along the body's vertical central line.
What is the axial skeleton?
The appendicular skeleton includes the upper and lower _____.
What are the limbs?
Bones provide this by giving the body a structural framework.
What is support?
This tissue covers the ends of the bones at joints and reduces friction.
What is cartilage?
This bone structure protects the heart and lungs.
What is the rib cage?
Name two areas of the body included in the axial skeleton.
What are the head, neck, chest, or back?
The appendicular skeleton branches off and attached to this.
What is the central axis?
Bones act as mechanical ______ and work with muscles and joints to produce this.
What are levers; movement?
This connective tissue connects bone to bone.
What are ligaments?
This structure contains and protects the spinal cord.
What is the vertebral column?
This part of the axial skeleton protects the brain.
What is the skull?
Name the two girdles associated with the appendicular skeleton.
What are the pectoral and pelvic girdles?
The skull and rib cage perform this important function.
What is protection?
What are tendons?
Yellow bone marrow stores this for energy.
What is fat?
Name three bones or structures belonging to the axial skeleton.
What are the skull, hyoid bone, vertebral column, ribs, sternum, sacrum, or coccyx?
Name two parts of the upper limbs.
What are the arms, wrists, or hands?
Red bone marrow produces these three types of blood components.
What are red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets?
What is one major function of cartilage?
What is absorbing shock and reducing friction between bones?
Gard bone structures protect delicate _____ organs.
What are internal organs?
What are the three major organs that are protected by the axial skeleton?
What is the main job of the appendicular skeleton?
What is supporting movements, walking, and lifting?
Bones store minerals such as these two.
What are calcium and phosphorus?
What do tendons transmit from muscles to the skeleton?
What is mechanical force?
EExplain how the skeletal system helps the body move.
Bones act as levers, joints allow movement, and muscle pull on bones through tendons.