Skeletal chap 1
Terms
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- marrow
- stores fat thatcan serve as energy reserve
- organs
- is a structure that is composed of different kinds of tissue
- nervous tissue
- directs or controls the process
- connective tissue
- provides supportfor your body
- cell membrane
- forms of outside boundary of the cell
- homeostasis
- is the process by which an organisms internal enviroment is kept stable in spite of changes in the external enviorment
- muscle tissue
- can contract or shorten
- stress
- the reaction of your body to potentially threatning,challenging, or disturbing events
- ligaments
- moveble joints are hold by this
- cell
- basic unit of structure and function in a living thing
- spongy bone
- makes the bone light wieght
- cytoplasm
- material within a cell apart from the nucleus
- nucleus
- control center that directs the cells activities and function
- tissue
- ofo simaliar cells that perform the same function
- cartilage
- second type of tissue which is more flexible then the bone
- vertebra
- makes up the back bone
- skeleton
- is made up of all you bones
- compact bone
- hard and dence but not solid, carry blood vessels
- osteoporosis
- a condition in which the bodys bone become weak and break easily
- organ system
- which is a group of organs that work together to make a special function
- joints
- allow bones to move in different ways