Skeletal System
Shaffer Malone,Jenny Vu,Sydney Reynolds
Function
It protects our vital organs such as the brain, the heart, and the lungs.
.It gives us the shape that we have. Without our skeleton,we would just be a blob of blood and tissue on the floor.
It allows us to move. Because our muscles are attached to our bones, when our muscles move, they move the bones, and we move. In the bone there is marrow the proudes red and white blood cells.
Structure
When you were born, your skeleton had around 350 bones. By the time you become an adult, you will only have around 206 bones. This is because, as you grow, some of the bones join together to form one bone.The bones are
Fun Facts
The number of bones in your neck and the number of bones in a giraffe’s neck is the same.
Health Problems
There is rickets a lack of vitamin D that can result to poor bone development in children.
There is gout that is caused by a defect in your uric acid. Then the gout goes in to the blood stream that stops in the joins that causes pain.
Poem
Skeletal system
is made up of bones,
children has more than 300 bones
and adults have 206 bones, that feel like stones.
The skull has
21 bones that are together
and one bone
that looks like a beggar.
You have 12 pairs of ribs
in your body
the first seven pairs
are the most dandy.
The system is made up of many more
but these are
the conquistadors.
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Help improve your life style
- Not running in wet areas even if you are late somewhere
- Wear a helmet in sports and when you ride a bicycle
- Drink milk or other drinks with calcium
- Work out for 30 min at lest two times a week