The Importance of Your Skeletal System

THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR SKELETAL SYSTEM
By Ana Linares
Table of Contents
The Importance and Function of the Skeletal System P.3 Main Parts of the Skeletal System P.4-P.5 The process and function of the skeletal system P.6 Keeping you Skeletal System Healthy P.7-P.8 Kinds of Illnesses that can affect the skeletal system P.9-P.12 Cool Facts.P.13 ConclusionP.14 GlossaryP.15-P.16 BibliographyP.17
The Importance and Function of your Skeletal System
The skeletal system has 206 bones. When you are born, you start with 300 bones, but by the time when you grow up you end up with 206 bones. Bones contain calcium that helps you grow and keep your bones healthy. Your skeleton keeps your structure and it also protects your inside of your body. Your skeleton helps you walk, stand, run, jump, and move. Without your skeleton your body will collapse.
Bones: The hard, dense, calcied tissue that forms the skeleton of most vertebrates. Calcium: A mineral found the mainly hard part of the bone.
Main Parts of the Skeletal System
Bones are made out of periosteum, compact (hard) bone, cancellous (spongy) bone, bone marrow, and cartilage. Some bones are flexible. They help you to move easier. Some of your flexible bones are your spine, your shoulder and the hip. Joints help you connect one bone to each other.
Spine: The spinal column of vertebrate Shoulder: The joint connecting the arm with the torso Hip: Either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh Joint: The place where two things are held together
Two main parts and the most important parts are the skull, that protects your brain, eyes and inner ears and the ribs that protects your heart and your lungs.
Skull: The hard bone in your head that protects your brain Ribs: The bone that protects your heart and lungs
Bone joint.
The Process that Happens in the Skeletal System

Muscles and bones work together because muscles need bones to attach to. If not, you will be like a jellyfish. Inside of most bones there is a hollow canal. In some bones nerves and blood vessels run through this center. Other bones are filled with a yellow or red jelly like substance called marrow. Marrow produces cells to the body. The red bone marrow in your body makes about 2 million new red blood cells each second of the day.
Hollow: Having space or opening inside. Marrow: The innermost or most important part of an inside bone. Cell: Basic structural unit of living organisms
Keeping Your Skeletal System Healthy
To keep your skeletal system healthy, you need to eat healthy food. The most important foods are milk, cheese, broccoli and sardines. Another way to keep your skeletal system healthy is by resting your bones. Doing exercise helps to keep your skeletal system healthy. Eating a healthy breakfast like orange juice and a sandwich gives energy for your bones for the day.
You also need to maintain a normal weight to help keep excess weight off bone joints. Calcium is very important. You can get it from dairy products as well as eggs, salmon and fish.
Kinds of Illnesses That can Affect the Skeletal System

Have you ever broken a bone? Well, broken bones are one of the common injuries of the skeletal system. They are called fractures. When a bone breaks the worst thing you can do is move it. It can hurt the person or make the injury worse.
Fracture: A complete or incomplete break in a bone.
Fracture/Broken bone
You can also have stress fractures, but is not really easy to tell. A stress fracture is a little crack in a bone. It usually happens when you put repetitive strain on your bones. Resting your bones gives a chance to your bones to rebuild. It can also happen when running farther or starting a new sport. It starts by a mini fracture but it can end up leading to stress fracture. If you dont take care of it, it can be a high risk.
Bones can also get cancer. One of the bone cancers is called Osteosarcoma. Its a type of cancer that involves the growth of cancerous tumors in the fast growing regions of bones. It mostly happens to 15 year old teenagers.
Another common fracture is a clavicle fracture. Your clavicle runs horizontally between the top of your sternum and shoulder blade (scapula). The clavicle helps your arm to connect with your body. Most clavicle fractures when into a shoulder or outstretched hand. You can fix it with ice and physical therapies.
Clavicle: Collar bone that articulates with the sternum and scapula forming the anterior portion of the shoulder. Sternum: A long at bone located in the center of the chest, serving as a support for the collarbone and ribs. Scapula: Either of two large at triangular bones forming the back part of the shoulder. Shoulder: The joint connecting the arm to the torso.
Cool Facts
Did you know that humans have the same number of neck bones as mice and giraffes? The thing is that giraffes have them bigger and mice have them smaller. More than half of your bones are in your hands, feet and teeth.
Conclusion
By now I hope you learned about the skeletal system and why is it important. This research helped me learn that everybody needs a skeleton. Without this system or without any system you wouldn't be able to survive because each system gives something to keep your body alive. I just want you to know that this system is important because it helps you stand, walk or do things that without it you wouldn't be able to do.
Glossary
Bones: The hard, dense, calcified tissue that forms the skeleton of most vertebrates. Calcium: A mineral found the mainly hard part of the bone. Cell: Basic structural unit of living organisms Clavicle: Collar bone that articulates with the sternum and scapula forming the anterior portion of the shoulder Fracture: A complete or incomplete break in a bone Hip: Either side of the body below the waist and above the thigh Hollow: Having space or opening inside. Joint: The place where two things are held together Marrow: The innermost or most important part of an inside bone. Ribs: The bone that protects your heart and lungs Scapula: Either of two large flat triangular bones forming the back part of the shoulder. Shoulder: The joint connecting the arm to the torso.
Skull: The hard bone in your head that protects your brain Spine: The spinal column of vertebrate Sternum: A long flat bone located in the center of the chest, serving as a support for the collarbone and ribs.
Bibliography
1. Top 10 questions about the skeletal system 2. Human body-Delta Education 3. Skeletal system 4. Googles images 5. Kidshealth.org
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THE IMPORTANCE OF YOUR SKELETAL SYSTEM

The Importance and Function of your Skeletal System

Main Parts of the Skeletal System

The Process that Happens in the Skeletal System

Keeping Your Skeletal System Healthy

Kinds of Illnesses That can Affect the Skeletal System

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