UNIT 2

Properties of the skeleton

• Holds up and shape the body

• Participates in movement

• Gives us color and the shape of the face

• Protects some delicate organs

• Gives us strength and flexibility

Match the following.

• Protect the joint

• Ligament

• Hard and rigid organ

• Bone

• Unions between two or more bones

• Joint

• Attach bones

• Cartilage

Properties of the musculature

• Hard and rigid organ

• Responsible for movement

• Contract and relax

• Gives us the shape of our body

Match the following

• Hard and rigid organ

• Tendon

• Attach bones

• Bone

• Attach muscles to the bones

• Ligament

d

e

f

g

c

b

a

Cheekbone

Frontal

Occipital

Temporal

Parietal

Nasal

Jawbone

a

b

c

d

Sternum

Rib

Vertebrae

Scapula

a

b

c

d

Femur

Coaxial

Ulna

Tibia

There are THREE kinds of JOINTS.

Match them with examples.

• Skull

• Semi-moveables

• Knee or elbow

• Moveables

• Vertebrae

• Fixed

a

b

c

Orbicular

Masseter

Buccinator

a

b

c

d

Sternocleidomastoid

Pectoral

Intercostal

Abdominal