Functions of the skeletal system

Question 1

What does the skeletal System include

Answer 1

Skeletal system includes bones and joints of the body

Question 2

What do joints do?

Answer 2

Joints attach to each other

Question 3

What does our skeletal do?

Answer 3

Our skeletal system provides a framework for internal organs, stores minerals that our body needs to perform and, produces blood cells.

Question 4

How do bones and muscles work together

Answer 4

bones help muscles produce movement

Question 5

Did you know?

Answer 5

Bones are more powerful than steel

Question 6

How many bones are in the skeletal system

Answer 6

206 bones

Question 7

How many shapes does the skeletal system have?

Answer 7

Four basic shapes

Question 8

What are the four basic shapes?

Answer 8

Long bone ( femur ) 
Short bone ( ankle or wrist )
Flat bones ( scapula ( shoulder blade ), or skull) 
Irregular bones ( vertebrae ( spinal cord )

Question 9

What are the two types of bone tissue?

Answer 9

Compact bone  ( very dense, smooth, and strong )
Cancellous Bone ( spongy and lightweight )

Question 10

What do the two types of bone tissues, compact and cancellous include?

Answer 10

They both include living cells, which help make repairs if both get broken

Question 11

What does a typical long bone have?

Answer 11

It has a main shaft called the diaphysis, which has compact bone, two ends called epiphysis, which has cancellous bones.

Question 12

what is inside a typical long bone?

Answer 12

The main shaft is covered with living cells called the periosteum, in which muscles and tendons

Question 13

Tendons

Answer 13

Are cords that help muscles attach to bones

Question 14

Other thing living cells, what else is inside a typical long bone?

Answer 14

In the main shaft, there is the medullary cavity, which contains bone marrow

Question 15

What does bone marrow stores

Answer 15

bone marrow contains fat, produces blood cells, and plays an important part in the bodies immune system

Question 16

What is ossification?

Answer 16

A process from birth to 25 years olds, which basically means cartilage or connective tissue is replaced with bone tissue so that bones increased in size and shape

Question 17

Did you know ? Adults

Answer 17

Appromixaly 10 percent of all adult bone tissue in our body is replaced each year.

Question 18

What happens when a bone reflects?

Answer 18

Every stress that is put in a bone reflects, basically, a person who hunches over has bones that will gradually become curved , as they are remodeled by the stress

Question 19

After age 50, what tends to happen to bones

Answer 19

Bones tend to weaken in density

Question 20

What is osteoporosis?

Answer 20

Occurs to women after menopause and men over 50, in which, dramatic and weakening of bone mass, bones become so weak that they fracture easily. Ex. hip , spine and wrist