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Muscular/Skeletal
Muscular and Skeletal Practice
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Voluntary | muscles we can control |
| Involuntary | muscles contract and relax without our control |
| Smooth muscle | muscle found in all organs of the body, involuntary |
| Cardiac muscle | muscle found in the heart, involuntary |
| Skeletal Muscle | muscle attached to bone, voluntary |
| Joint | where two or more bones meet; must have several other types of tissues present to have a healthy joint (ligaments, tendons, cartilage) |
| Ligament | connective tissue that connects bone to bone |
| Tendon | connective tissue that connects muscle to bone |
| Bone Marrow | inside the bone where red and white blood cells are produced |
| Skeletal System | protects your organs, provides shape and structure for your body, produces blood cells, and allows movement |
| Muscular System | allows us to move and make all organs work |
| Movement | Muscular System |
| Protection/structure | Skeletal System |
| Homeostasis | -Maintaining a constant internal environment; a stable balance inside the body |
| Internal Stimulihunger, thirst | - Anything coming from inside an organism’s body that causes a reaction or change in the organism; |
| External Stimuli | Anything coming from outside the body of an organism that causes a reaction or change in the organism; environmental factors, such as temperature, light, touch |
| Response | A reaction to a stimulus; internal response: fever, vomiting; external response: running away from danger, searching for food or water |
| Cells | -Basic unit of life; smallest building block of an organism |
| Tissue | -A group of similar cells that perform a common function. |
| Organ | -A structure made up of a collection of two or more tissues that carries out a specialized function. |
| Organ System | -A group of two or more organs that work together to perform body functions. |
| Organelles- | specialized structures in the cell; mini organs in the cell |
| Cartilage | - cushion between joints also found in ears and nose |
| Independent Variable- | The factor that is deliberately changed in order to test the effect of the change on another variable. “The one thing being tested” |
| Dependent Variable | -The factor that is measured to gather results; the result or response measured |
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