Across
- 4. Living structures that change throughout your life.
- 6. Are in bones. Stores fat.
- 8. Receives information about inside & outside of your body then processes information & forms response to it.
- 9. Injury that may happen when muscles are overworked or stretched too much
- 11. Muscle you can control that is attached to bone & is used to do things.
- 13. Muscle you can't control that is only in the heart & helps heart beat & pump blood.
- 14. Makes bones stronger at adulthood.
- 15. Muscle you can't control that helps push food through the digestive system & circulates blood.
- 16. Slight tension that keeps muscles firm & tense but doesn't move muscle.
- 17. Coordinates your body's movements & helps you keep balance.
Down
- 1. Softer and more flexible bone.
- 2. Are in bones. Produces red blood cells.
- 3. Neurons that are only in the brain and spinal cord. Passes impulses from one neuron to another.
- 5. Has five main roles: Provides support, protects internal organs, allows your body to move, and stores and produces materials that your body needs.
- 7. Neurons that send nerve impulses to muscles & glands.
- 10. Neurons that gather information about external & internal environment.
- 12. Place in between bones.
- 13. Makes up 85% of the brain's weight. Split into 2 hemispheres: left hemisphere associated with mathematical thinking & right hemisphere associated with creativity.
- 18. stem Between cerebellum & spinal cord. Controls involuntary actions (breathing, blinking).
- 19. A Smooth layer of tough cartilage that cushions & protects the ends of bones where they meet.