Skeletal System
We breathe _____ in and breathe ____ out.
What is oxygen and carbon dioxide?
The basic unit of life. Many of these units together form this.
What is a cell? What is tissue?
There are this many types of movable joints.
What is 6? They are: gliding, hinge, pivot, condyloid, saddle, and ball-and-socket.
This has four chambers and pumps blood throughout your body.
What is the heart?
These transport signals between your brain and body.
What are your nerves?
Heart, liver, lungs, and skin are all examples of these.
What are organs?
These connect bones to bones, especially at joints, to provide stability and allow for free movement.
What are ligaments?
This is your funny bone.
What is the humerus?
These types of cells carry oxygen through your body.
What are red blood cells?
This part of the brain is located near the back of your skill and is where visual information is processed.
What is the occipital lobe?
This system helps protect you from infection and disease.
What is the immune system?
This type of joint does not move. Your skull has quite a few of them.
What is an immoveable joint?
This organ is important in gas exchange.
What are the lungs?
This part of your brain controls automatic functions such as breathing.
What is the brain stem?
This organ system controls your hormones and your hormones affect how you feel and develop.
What is the endocrine system?
These connect muscles to bones and other structures, allowing muscles to move bones.
What are tendons?
These are 3 parts of your spine.
What are the cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and or sacral vertebrae?
These carry your oxygen rich blood to your entire body parts and carry oxygen depleted blood back to your lungs.
What are arteries and veins?
This insulates nerves and helps speed up signals in your nervous system.
What is myelin?
This breaks down food into nutrients which are then absorbed by the body.
What is the digestive system?
This type of joint contains the same stuff your nose and ears are made of.
What is a cartilanageous joint? A synchrondosis is immovable, such as between rib and sternum. A symphysis consists of a compressable fibrocartilaginous pad that connects two bones. This allows for some movement. Examples are hip bones and vertebrae.