THE SKELETAL SYSTEM

STRUCTURES OF THE SKELETAL SYSTEM

• The skeletal system provides shape and support for your body
• It protects your organs
• It also produces blood cells for your body

JOINTS

• Where two bones meet

LIGAMENTS

• Attaches bones at joints

TENDONS

• Connectes the muscle to the bones

CONNECTIVE TISSUE

• Connects all the parts of the body and provides support

SKELETAL MUSCLES

• Volentary muscles allached to bones,allow you to move.

SMOOTH MUSCLES

• Involentary muscles that control movement within the organs of the body

CARDIAC MUSCLE

• Involentary muscle that forms the heart

MUSCLE TISSUE

• Contracts and shortens making body parts move

EPITHERLIAL TISSUE

• one of the four basic types of animal tissue

FUNCTIONS OF THE INTEGUMENTARY SYSTEM

• Covers the body and prevents the loss of water.
• Protects from infection and injury.
• Regulates body temp.
• Receive info from the environment
• Produces vitamin d

THE NERVOUS SYSTEM

• The nervous system is the highway along which your brain sends and receives information about what is happening in the body and around it.

NERVE TISSUE

• living cells have the ability to react to stimuli.