Health Body Systems
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The pigment that gives skin its coloring?
**Melanin**
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The inner layer of skin?
**Dermis**
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Strong, flexible connective tissue?
**Cartilage**
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A body system that supports and protects delicate internal organs?
**Skeletal**
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One of the 2 proteins that control muscle contraction?
**Actin**
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The other protein that controls muscle contraction?
**Myosin**
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Slightly elastic tissue that connects bone to bone?
**Ligament**
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A body system that includes your skin?
**Integumentary**
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A system that is responsible for all body movement?
**Muscular**
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Joins muscle to bone or to other muscles?
**Tendon**
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Smooth, skeletal and cardiac?
**Muscles**
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Outer layer of skin?
**Epidermis**
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Short, long, flat and irregular?
**Bones**
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Give 2 of the 3 functions of the skin?
**1. Protection 2. Regulates body temperature**
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This is not part of the skin, but it is located below the dermis?
**Hypodermis**
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This is the largest organ of the body?
**Skin**
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Besides the skin, what else is included in the Integumentary system?
**1. Hair 2. Nails 3. Sweat glands 4. Sebaceous glands**
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What causes body odor?
**Bacteria**
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This results when a clogging of the pores of the skin occurs?
**Acne**
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What are the 2 main parts of the skeletal system?
**1. Axial 2. Appendicular**
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This part of the skeletal system includes the bones of the skull, ribs, sternum and vertebrae?
**Axial**
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This part of the skeletal system includes the bones of the shoulders, arms, legs, hands, hips and feet?
**Appendicular**
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This is the point at which 2 bones meet together?
**Joint**
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What type of exercise increases bone mass?
**Weight bearing**
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True or false, a fracture is slightly worse than a broken bone?
**False, it’s the same thing**
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This is the condition in which bone density decreases?
**Osteoporosis**
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This is an injury to tissues surrounding a joint?
**Sprain**
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This is inflammation of a joint?
**Arthritis**
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This is inflammation of a tendon?
**Tendonitis**
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These types of muscles are voluntary?
**Skeletal**
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These types of muscles are involuntary?
**1. Smooth 2. Cardiac**
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These muscles close a joint?
**Flexors**
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These muscles open a joint?
**Extensors**
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Give the term for muscles decreasing in size and strength (wasting away)?
**Atrophy**
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This is the natural tension in the fibers of a muscle?
**Muscle tone**
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