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What is it's Purpose?
What Joint?
True or False
Vocabulary
100
What is the scientific name for jaw?
Mandible
100
Which part of the skeletal system protects the spinal cord?
Vertebral Column
100
What is the name of a joint that can move foreward and backward?
hinge joint
100
When you are a baby you have more bones than the adult
true
100
The muscle found in some organs of the body.
Smooth muscle
200
What is the thigh bone called?
femur.
200
What does bone marrow do?
Produces red blood cells
200
What is the name of the joint that a baseball pitcher uses to wind up his arm before pitching? (See demonstration)
ball and socket joint
200
The heart makes blood.
false
200
Protects your brain.
Cranium
300
What system makes blood?
Skeletal System
300
What does your fibula do? Name one function of cartilage?
Protects ends of bones Gives shape and support
300
What is the name of the joint that allows rotation (turning from side to side)?
Pivot joint
300
Cardiac muscle is striated.
true
300
Place where two or more bones connect.
Joint
400
What Holds bone to muscle?
tendons.
400
What do skeletal muscles do?
Move your bones
400
What joint is found in your phalanges?
Hinge joint
400
When muscles contract, they shorten.
True
400
Holds bones together in joints.
Ligaments
500
What process keeps your internal body environment stable?
Homeostasis
500
Why are blood vessels lined with smooth muscle?
To help push blood back to the heart.
500
What is the joint located at your carpals?
the sliding/gliding joint
500
Extensor muscles bend part of the body while flexor muscles straighten part of the body.
False.
500
Condition in which the body's bones become weak and break easily.
Osteoporosis