Musculoskeletal System
Across
- 1. What bone is connected to the femur and vertebral column?
- 3. What is a disease that makes the body waste away, turn the muscles stiff, and slow the body’s movement speed?
- 6. What fills the center of your bones?
- 7. What is the scientific word for the calf?
- 9. What is the shoulder joint called?
- 10. What is the scientific name for your chest?
- 12. It makes your bones show up on x-rays.
- 14. What is the longest tendon in your body?
- 15. What muscle is anterior to the stomach and assists in the body’s balance?
- 16. What is the scientific name of the skin bone?
- 17. What is the fibbing bone?
- 18. What bone protects the heart and lungs?
- 19. What bone does the radius rotate over?
- 20. Which muscle is on the underside of the thigh and does the opposite of the quadriceps?
- 21. What is a disease that thins and weakens bones so they become very fragile?
- 22. What muscle works with the biceps?
- 23. What bone connects at the bottom of the skull?
- 24. What is the scientific name of the jaw?
- 25. This helps with giving an extra burst in short-term activities.
- 31. What is the scientific name for your funny bone?
- 32. What muscle contracts to straighten the leg at the patella?
- 33. This muscle is on the top side of the upper arm.
- 34. What muscles are overdeveloped on Mr. Walker’s dog?
Down
- 1. What bone creates the joint between the femur and tibia?
- 2. Which type of bone does not have many spaces in it?
- 4. There are three _______ in one finger.
- 5. What connects bone to bone?
- 7. What is the largest and heaviest muscle in your body?
- 8. What is it called when a muscle is contracted for an extended period of time?
- 11. What bone is connected to the ulna at the elbow and the wrist?
- 13. What tissue surrounds bone and prevents them from grinding each other?
- 22. What muscle is so developed in football players that make them look like they have no neck?
- 23. What makes up the vertebral column?
- 25. What is the longest bone in your body?
- 26. Which bone has many spaces in it?
- 27. What muscle on the sides of your back help with doing chin-ups?
- 28. True or false, the pectoralis muscle is in the legs.
- 29. What bone does the violin chinrest rest on?
- 30. True or false, tendons connect bone to muscle.