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Your Support System: All About the Skeletal System

Learn about the skeletal system - composed of bones, cartilage, ligaments, and tendons. It provides support, protection to organs, aids in movement, produces blood cells, and stores minerals. Explore the components and types of joints. Watch educational videos to understand the importance and structure of the skeletal system.

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Your Support System: All About the Skeletal System

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  1. Your Support System The Skeletal System

  2. The Skeletal System http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vya4wpS2fgk Composed of: bones, cartilage, ligaments and tendons Function: • Provide support and shape to the body • Protection of internal organs • Locomotion (movement) • Produce blood cells • Stores minerals and nutrients

  3. Components • Tendons – flexible material that attaches bones to muscle • Ligaments – flexible material that attaches bones together • Cartilage – flexible material that acts as a shock absorber in joints and also gives shape to certain parts of the body • Bones – hard material for support, protection and blood production • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGTenIDJBwU&feature=related

  4. Bones Human body has 206 bones. http://sv.berkeley.edu/showcase/pages/bones.html

  5. Types of Joints http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMglTDY-JOQ&feature=related

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