Skeletal System
Across
- 2. fluid Fluid that allows the joints to move easily (TWO WORDS)
- 5. d Your body needs _______ to make string bones. Your body makes this when it is exposed to the sun (TWO WORDS)
- 6. Joints that do not move
- 8. This is what occurs when two smaller bones are joined together to form one bone
- 9. A firm but resilient material in the body and on the ends of bones that absorbs shock well and keeps the bones from getting hurt when they rub against each other
- 11. A bulge that occurs in a broken bone while it is healing
- 14. Fats that are stored in your bones as well as elsewhere in your body periosteum The outside layer of a bone; a thin, tough membrane
- 15. system The boy supportive structure within the human body (TWO WORDS)
- 17. This is a disease that results in weak bones with lots of tiny holes in them
- 19. The cells that make new bones
- 21. The bones of your skull that protect your brain
- 22. bone The layer of bone under the compact bone. It is a network of pores and tunnels interconnected in a pattern that makes the bone strong yet resilient (TWO WORDS)
Down
- 1. The tough fiber that makes up part of the bone
- 3. The bone cells that eat away at the spongy layer, causing your bones to get wider
- 4. when a person doesn't get enough of the right kinds of nutrients
- 7. A disease that causes weak and misinformed bones. People can get this disease when they do not get enough Vitamin D
- 10. This is the kind of bone marrow in which lipids (fats) are stored
- 12. A mineral stored in your bones that helps keep your hear beating and your brain thinking. It also makes bones strong
- 13. The longest bone in the body-the thigh bone
- 16. This is the kind of bone marrows in which blood cells are made
- 18. What scientists call it when the body breaks down old bone and rebuilds new bone
- 20. The group of bones that make up your head