HOW DO BODY WORK TOGETHER TO CARRY OUT LIFE FUNCTIONS?

Chapter 1: Lesson 5:part 1

Function of the skeletal system

1) Protect the soft organs ex. Heart and lungs.2) Provide a framework for the body (support).

Protect the heart and lungs

HipsSpine

Neck

Vertebrae

Shoulder

KneeThigh

Elbow

Foot Ankle

Shin

What is bone?A living tissues that are light and strong.

Soft bone marrow inside many of the bones is where most of the blood cells are made.

What make up the bones?

X-rays

Pictures that gives doctors a map of the

body  

How do we know what our bodies look like?

Babies have 300 bones which grow and fuse together to form the 206 bone of adults.

Example:

Clean breakWhen the bone has broken into

two bones.

A green stick fracture

When the bone cracks on one side

only, not all the way through. 

Types of bone fractures