Abri's Skeletal System Crossword Puzzle
Across
- 2. Bones forms the inner layer of all bones inside the compact bones
- 4. what do skeletal muscles do
- 5. when a twisting action overstretches or tears a ligament that connects bones at a joint
- 7. fibrous connective tissues that attach muscles to bone or other structures
- 8. the muscle’s insertion point moves toward its original point
- 11. forms the vertical, central axis of the body
- 13. helps form the body and gives it shape
- 16. they run parallel to the long axis of bones
- 17. found in the skull and are immovable joints between adjacent bones of the skull.
Down
- 1. when a bone displaces from a joint
- 2. supports the face and protects the brain.
- 3. a condition where bones loss mass and become more porous
- 6. the production of blood cells
- 9. protects the ends of bones and joints
- 10. a crack or break in the bone
- 12. connects bone to bone
- 14. where skeletal muscles cross
- 15. where skeletal muscles typically attach