The Muscular System
Everyone has ___, without it, you would collapse on the floor.
What is muscle tone.
What is the name of the tailbone?
What is, the coccyx
Where is blood produced?
In the bones (red bone marrow)
What are muscle cells wrapped in?
Connective tissue
What are voluntary muscles?
Voluntary muscles are muscles under your control.
How many bones does the average adult have?
206
The strongest tendon in the entire body.
What is the achilles tendon.
What are the area's where are bones meet called?
joints
what is aerobic energy?
Energy that uses oxygen
What are involuntary muscles?
Involuntary muscles are muscles you can't control.
What mineral is good for your bones?
Calcium.
What is the function of tendons?
They connect skeletal muscle to bone
How many bones are in the hand?
54
Smooth muscles are found in your blood vessels, stomach, intestines, and bladder. These muscles are:
What is involuntary
smooth, cardiac, and skeletal.
What are the 3 types of muscle tissue types?
How many vertebrae make up your spinal column?
24
The stripes in muscle filaments are called:
What is striations
Even when youre sleeping, your eyes are moving! what is this called?
REM - rapid eye movement
Your tongue is a muscle. True or False.
True
The outside layer of the bone is a thick, tough membrane called the __
periosteum
Which bone in your face is the only one that is not connected by a suture joint?
What is the Mandible
muscles work together to help you move, one group of muscles pulls the bone in a certain direction, and the other group pulls the bone in the opposite direction.
what is, antagonistic muscles.
What is your compact bone made of?
Calcium-rich minerals and collagen fibers
As children grow older, their bones grow too. The growth of the long bones happens in a plate near the end of each bone. What happens to the cells of cartilage in a growth plate?
Cartilage cells are replaced by bone cells
Name the 5 categories of bones
long, short, flat, sesamoid, irregular
What does anaerobic energy produce and what is your body's response?
Lactic acid, bring more oxygen through heavier breathing
If you overuse your tendons they can get inflamed. What is this called?
Tendonitis.
Describe how a broken bone heals
blood at break, clotting, callus, (often times cast) bone cells replace the callus
What is the largest muscle in the human body?
The Gluteus Maximus.
When you shake your head "no", what category of joint is being used?
Pivot joint
The body’s skeletal and muscular systems work together to produce movement. Which of the following is another important function of the skeletal system?
It protects the inner organs