Skeletal System

The functions are the skeletal system are

• To support the body, protect the organs, store calcium, and produce blood cells

• to regulate the composition of body fluids by removing metabolic wastes and retain the balance of water, salt, and other nutrients

• to regulate and maintain bodily functions by producing hormones and releasing them into the blood stream

• to enable the diffusion of oxygen into the bloodstream and the removal of carbon dioxide from the bloodstream

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

What are the 2 organs in the skeletal system?

• muscles and joints

• joints and bones

• heart and lungs

• kidney and pancreas

What is cartilage?

• joints that connect bone to tissue

• Connective tissue that acts as balance for the body

• Connective tissue near joints that act as a shock absorber

• a piece of tissue that is attached to the scapula

What are the joints in the skeletal system?

• Ball and socket, gliding, pivot, fused, hinge

• ball ad socket, screw, wrench, metatarsals

• ball and socket, gliding, immovable (fused) and juking

• None of the choices are correct

Identify the skeletal bone in the picture; has immovable (fused) joints

• ribs

• tibia

• femur

• cranium

Identify the skeletal bone in the picture highlighted blue

• mandible

• humerus

• cranium

• femur

Identify the skeletal bone in the picture highlighted in red

• sternum

• ribs

• femur

• vertebrae

Identify the skeletal bone in the picture highlighted in orange

• ribs

• mandible

• vertebrae

• humerus

What are the 2 types of bone tissue?

• spongy bone and compact bone
• marrow and blood vessels
• axial and appendicular

These tissues hold bones together at movable joints.

• cells
• ligaments
• organs
• tendons