Muscles, Blood and Bones Flashcards
What is the name of the bone containing your brain?
skull
What is the name of the tissue bones contain?
Bone Marrow
What keeps the bones in a joint together?
Ligaments
What moves a bone?
Muscles
What attaches a muscle to a bone?
Tendons
What are the ends of bones covered in?
Cartilage
What are the three types of joints?
immovable, slightly movable and freely movable
What are the functions of bones?
Support, Movement and Protection
What is the name of the organ system made of muscles and bones?
the locomotor system
What is the name of a pair of muscles that work oppositely to move a bone?
An antagonistic pair, biceps and triceps
What is the name of an electrical signal send down the spinal cord into the nerves of a muscle to make it contract?, bl
impulse
What does a heart do while pumping blood?
Chambers in the heart fill with blood, the muscle tissue in the wall of the heart contracts making the chambers smaller, pumping the blood out of them
Blood pumped from the heart joins blood vessels called WHAT?
Arteries
What are the tiny blood vessels arteries lead into?
Capillaries
What does blood travelling around the body do?
Drops off oxygen and nutrients to cells and pick up waste from the cells to bring back to the heart in veins
