What the Skeletal System Does
Your backbone is the center of this.
What is a skeleton?
The two types of joints.
What are movable and immovable joints?
The longest bone in the body.
What is a femur?
Something you do to ensure healthy bones.
What is a diet?
Each of the series of small bones forming the backbone, having several projections for articulation and muscle attachment, and a hole through which the spinal cord passes.
What is vertebrae?
Bones protect this.
What are organs?
This protects bones from rubbing against each other.
What is a cartilage?
Blood vessels and nerves enter and leave the bone through this.
What is a membrane?
These contain calcium and phosphorus. (Double points)
What is meat/whole grain/leafy green vegetables?
A bone disease that develops when bone mineral density and bone mass decreases, or when the structure and strength of bone changes
What is osteoporosis?
Bones store these minerals when your body needs them.
What is calcium and phosphorus?
Movable joints are called these. (Double points)
What are synovial joints?
Bones form these new ones as you grow.
What is a bone tissue?
This makes your bones grow stronger and denser.
What is exercise?
A fibrous connective tissue that attaches bone to bone.
What is a ligament?
What are organs?
Movable joints are held together by these.
What are ligaments?
There is a red and yellow kind of this.
What is a marrow?
Calcium will help prevent this.
What is osteoporosis?
This is lighter and less dense than compact bone.
What is a spongy bone?
If your backbone was one bone, you wouldn't be able to do this.
What is bending or twisting?
This type of joint allows the greatest range of motion.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
An adult's body is this made up of this percentage of bone.
What is 20%?
Osteoporosis is more commonly found here.
What are women?
Soft fatty substance in the cavities of bones, in which blood cells are produced.
What is a marrow?