Cells to Body Systems Part 7 Flashcards
1
Q
How many peoples in the adult?
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206
2
Q
- Includes Bones, cartilage, and ligaments,
- Gives your body its form
- Protects many of the organs
- Works with the muscular system
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Skeletal system
3
Q
Spongy connective tissue that cushions the ends of many bones
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Cartilage
4
Q
- Bands of connective tissue
- Holds the bones together
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Ligaments
5
Q
Holds the muscles attached to bones
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Tendons
6
Q
Muscles and tendons that move bones
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Muscular system
7
Q
- Muscles that support and move your body
- Made of muscle tissue held together by connective tissue
- Connected by tendons
- Often work in pairs
- Voluntary muscles (you control them)
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Skeletal muscles
8
Q
- Make up most of the walls of the body’s organs
- Help blood or food through tubes
- Involuntary (you cannot control them)
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Smooth muscles
9
Q
- Make up the walls of the heart
- Contracts to pump blood to all parts of the body
- Involuntary (you cannot control them)
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Cardiac muscles
10
Q
- Enables you to sense your environment and to react to it
- Directs other systems activities
- Connects all the tissue and organs in your body to the brain
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Nervous system
11
Q
- One of the two parts of the nervous system
- Includes the brain and spinal cord
- Sends signals up and down the spinal cord
- Determines response that are needed
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Central Nervous System
12
Q
- A bundle of nerves
- Thick as a pencil
- Extends from the brain all the way to the hips
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Spinal cord
