Question | Answer |
What is the maintenance of a stable internal environment? | Homeostasis |
What are two or more tissues working together? | Organ |
What is the soft, flexible tissue that changes to bone? | Cartilage |
What tissue covers and protects other tissue? | Epithelial |
What do we call a group of cells working together? | Tissue |
What do we call the place where two bones connect? | Joint |
What tissue contracts and relaxes to produce movement? | Muscle |
What tissue sends electrical signals through the body? | Nervous |
What tissue joins, supports, protects, insulates, nourishes, and cushions organs? | Connective |
What is a baby's skeleton mostly made of? | Cartilage |
What are the tissues that attach bones to muscles called? | Tendons |
What is the soft material that produces the body's blood cells called? | Marrow |
What are the structures where bones come together called? | Joints |
What is the tissue that connects bone to bone called? | Ligaments |
Where is cardiac muscle found? | Heart |
When smooth muscle moves blood through your blood vessels, is the action voluntary or involuntary? | Involuntary |
What kind of muscles help protect your inner organs? | Skeletal |
What are the three types of muscle? | Cardiac, smooth, and skeletal |
What kind of muscle make up organs such as those found in the digestive tract? | Smooth muscle |
What muscles contract to move bones? | Skeletal |
What system is made up of bones, cartilage, and connective tissue? | Skeletal |
What kind of bone has many open spaces and contains marrow? | Spongy |
What kind of muscle is found only in your heart? | Cardiac |
What tissue attaches skeletal muscle to bones? | Tendons |
What kind of bone tissue does not have open spaces? | Compact |
What system is made up of muscles and the connective tissue that attaches them to bones? | Muscular |
How many bones are in your body? | 206 |
What is the largest bone in the body? | Femur |
Where are blood cells made? | Bone marrow |
Where are the smallest bones in your body located? | Ear |
What bones protect your spinal cord? | Vertebrae |
What kind of joint allows you to flex and extend your lower leg? | Hinge joint |
What is responsible for the color of your skin? | Melanin |
What is the lower skin layer called that contains mainly collagen and connective tissue? | Dermis |
Organs in the dermis that produce hair? | Hair follicles |
What is the outermost skin layer that is made of epithelial tissue? | Epidermis |
What small organs in the dermis produce a salty waste? | Sweat gland |
What 3 things make up the integumentary system? | Hair, skin, and nails |
Which of these are made of dead cells: Epidermis, hair, or nails? | All of them |