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Vocabulary 1
Vocabulary 2
Skeleton
Muscles
Skin
100
The basic framework of the body
What is the skeletal system?
100
Organ that relaxes and contracts
What is a muscle?
100
The number of bones of various sizes and shapes in the human skeleton
What is 206?
100
There are about this many muscles in the human body
What is 600?
100
The outermost layer of skin
What is the epidermis?
200
Thick, smooth layer of tissue that covers the ends of bones
What is cartilage?
200
Any muscles that you do not consciously control
What are involuntary muscles?
200

This is a disease that causes pain and inflammation in the joints.

What is arthritis?

200
This type of muscle is the most common in the body
What is skeletal muscle?
200
The chemical that gives skin its color
What is melanin?
300
Any place where two bones meet
What is a joint?
300
Voluntary muscles that are the most numerous in the body
What are skeletal muscles?
300

This common bone disease causes bones to become weak and brittle.

What is osteoporosis?

300
Muscle that is found only in the heart
What is cardiac muscle?
300
The approximate number of sweat glands in the skin
What is 3,000,000?
400

This type of injury is the result of broken blood vessels underneath the skin.

What is a bruise?

400
Thick bands of tissue that attach muscles to bones
What are tendons?
400

Bones supply this mineral to your nerves, muscles and heart.

What is calcium?

400
Any muscles that are consciously controlled
What are voluntary muscles?
400
Vitamin D helps the body absorb this
What is calcium?
500
The kind of joints between skull bones
What are immovable joints?
500
Involuntary muscles in the digestive system
What are smooth muscles?
500

This tissue connects bones and allows for movement within your joints.

What are ligaments?

500
Muscles must always work in _________.
What are pairs?
500
The middle layer of tissue under the epidermis
What is the dermis?