Muscles and Bones Unit Exam Study Guide
Students should be able to:
- Label
15-20 bones of the human body. (word bank will be provided)
- Identify
the number of bones in an adult human body. (206).
- Name
the three functions of the skeleton as form, protection and movement.
- Name
the largest, longest bone in the body as the femur.
- Describe
how bones are made up of four layers: “bone skin”, compact bone, spongy
bone and bone marrow.
- Explain
the reasons how we know that bone is a living thing. They heal themselves.
They grow. They make blood.
- Name
the four types of joints and be able to label them on the skeleton.
- Hinge
joint- fingers, toes, knees and elbows
- Pivot
joint- wrists, ankles and neck
- Ball
and socket- shoulders and hips
- Gliding
joint- spine
- Identify
the largest muscle in your body as the gluteus maximus.
- Name
the three types of muscles as voluntary, involuntary and cardiac. They
will also need to give examples of how each is used. Voluntary muscles are
muscles that we can control such as kicking a ball or writing a letter.
Involuntary muscles are muscles that we do not control such as our brain
functioning, our lungs breathing, our digestive system working. Our
cardiac muscle is our heart.
- Define
- ligaments
as tissue that connects bone to bone
- Tendons
as tissue that connects muscle to bone
- Cartilage
as the tissue that is known as soft bone like that in our nose and ears.
Also, as the jelly like substance found in between bones which reduces
friction.
- Joints
are where two bones meet.
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