Across
- 1. Flatted plates of compact bone
- 8. Calcium and phosphorus minerals are stored within the bony matrix
- 10. Provides flexibility to the ligaments
- 14. The Appendicular skeleton contains all of our limbs and pelvis
- 15. Bone marking that is a small rounded projection on a bone
- 16. Cavity for your yellow bone marrow
- 18. Bones that are formed within a tendon
- 19. Attaches to the sternum
- 20. Where red blood cells are created
Down
- 2. wider than it is long
- 3. This type of cartilage provides firm but elastic support and contains loosely packed collagen fibers
- 4. connective tissues in the skeletal system
- 5. middle part of the bone
- 6. A compressible but resilient type of cartilage
- 7. provides the strength in a ligament
- 9. known as adipose tissue is a connection tissue in the skeletal system
- 11. allows for movement through the formation of joint
- 12. Goes through the long bone
- 13. Has a solid foundation
- 17. You can consider a rope from the muscle to the bone