UNIT 2

Properties of the skeleton

• Holds up and shape the body

• Participates in movement

• Gives us color and the shape of the face

• Protects some delicate organs

• Gives us strength and flexibility

Match the following.

• Protect the joint

• Joint

• Hard and rigid organ

• Bone

• Attach bones

• Cartilage

• Unions between two or more bones

• Ligament

Properties of the musculature

• Hard and rigid organ

• Responsible for movement

• Contract and relax

• Gives us the shape of our body

Match the following

• Attach bones

• Bone

• Hard and rigid organ

• Ligament

• Attach muscles to the bones

• Tendon

d

e

f

g

c

b

a

Frontal

Cheekbone

Occipital

Jawbone

Parietal

Nasal

Temporal

a

b

c

d

Rib

Sternum

Scapula

Vertebrae

a

b

c

d

Ulna

Tibia

Coaxial

Femur

There are THREE kinds of JOINTS.

Match them with examples.

• Vertebrae

• Fixed

• Skull

• Semi-moveables

• Knee or elbow

• Moveables

a

b

c

Buccinator

Orbicular

Masseter

a

b

c

d

Pectoral

Abdominal

Intercostal

Sternocleidomastoid