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Science: Review Ch 13
Support and Movement
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Science
6th Grade
10/24/2007

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This is a test
Definition
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What are 3 jobs of the skeletal system?
Definition
1. protect organs
2. support the body
3. make blood cells
Term
What are tissues that can shorten along their length?
Definition
muscles
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What is a muscle that straightens a joint?
Definition
an extensor
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T or F:  Bones can be different sizes, have different jobs, and have different shapes.
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true
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What is a tough, flexible, connective tissue?

Definition

cartilage

Term
What is a tissue that connects muscle to bone?
Definition
a tendon
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What connective tissue connects bone to bone?
Definition
ligaments
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What is a group of cells that look alike and work together?
Definition
a tissue
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What are a group of tissues that work together?
Definition
an organ
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What is the tissue that covers and protects parts of the body?
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an epithelial tissue
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What is the thin membrane that covers a bone?
Definition
periosteum
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What is the mostly solid, dense part of a bone?
Definition
compact bone
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What is the part of the bone with many small pores or spaces?
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spongy bone
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Where are new blood cells made?
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in the red bone marrow
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What are the muscles that you can control for movement?
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striated muscles
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What kind of muscles cause movement you cannot control?
Definition
smooth muscles
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What kind of muscles are found only in the heart and major blood vessels?
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cardiac muscles
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Most muscles work in teams of ___.
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two
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What is the place where 2 or more bones meet?
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joint
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What category (group) of joints are most bones in?
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moveable joints
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What kind of joint allows bones to move in most directions?
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ball-and-socket joint
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What kind of joint allows bones to slide along each other?
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gliding joint
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What kind of joint allows bones to move forward and backward in only one direction?
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hinge joint
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What kind of joint allows bones to move side to side and up and down?
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pivotal joint
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Prehistory
Definition
The period of time before people began to write
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Archaeology
Definition
The study of things that earlier people left behind
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Artifact
Definition
objects made  by people
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Fossil
Definition
remains, such as bones, of once living animals and humans
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Theory
Definition
accepted explanantions
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Hominid

 

Definition
Humans and species with humanlike characteristics
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Paleolithic Era
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Old Stone Age

Began about 2.5 million years ago and ended 10,000 years ago

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Migrate
Definition
to move from one place to another
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