Skeleton Flashcards
What are the three types of skeleton?
Endoskeleton, exoskeleton and hydroskeleton.
What type of skeleton do we have?
We have an endoskeleton.
Give some examples of hydro skeleton and exoskeleton.
Hydroskeleton: blobfish, jellyfish, sea anatomies.
Exoskeleton: crab, lobster, shrimp
Which type of bone is on the outside?
The compact bone.
What is inside the compact bone?
Spongy bone.
What is inside the spongy bone?
The red and yellow marrow.
What is a tissue?
A tissue is a group of cells that perform a function.
What is a bone?
A bone is a living tissue with a good blood supply .
What two things to bones need to be in order to do their job?
They need to be strong and flexible
What does the bone need to be strong?
Calcium
What do we get calcium from?
Dairy foods.
What do we need for our body to absorb calcium?
We need vitamin D from oily fish and sunlight.
What is collagen?
Collagen is the protein that gives our bones their flexibility.
How can our bodies make collagen?
By eating leafy green vegetables .
Explain the bone experiment which used vinegar and chicken bones
3 chicken bones. One has been baked in an oven for 4 hours, the other soaked in vinegar for 2 weeks and the other has had nothing done to it.
