Bone Characteristics Cross Word Puzzle

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Across
  1. 1. Most muscles attach to bones, when they contract they pull on bones to produce movement
  2. 4. mineral homeostasis
  3. 6. marrow Site of homeopoiesis in the adult
  4. 7. Blood cell production, white and red
  5. 10. Mature bone cells
  6. 12. Structural framework
  7. 14. Protects most important organs
  8. 16. Site of spongy bone in adult
  9. 18. repeating structural unit
  10. 20. A thin layer, membrane, or plate of tissue
Down
  1. 2. D needed for calcium absorption
  2. 3. Type of fracture that may happen from a pedestrian collision, or sudden twisting and bending
  3. 5. Type of fracture that can happen with any activity where force is applied at any angle
  4. 8. Immature bone cells are referred to as
  5. 9. Disease in which bones become very weak and brittle due to lifelong lack of calcium
  6. 11. Bone cells that liquefy bone matrix and release calcium to the blood are called
  7. 13. needed for structural component of bone
  8. 15. Microscopic canals between lucnae of ossified bone
  9. 17. Type of fracture that causes the broken ends of the bone to be jammed together by force of the injury
  10. 19. Storage, yellow bone marrow