Skeletal System Notes
Name:__________________
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Your skeletal system has 5 major functions.
1. _______shale and support_____
2. _________enables you to move_________
3. ______produces blood cells______
4. _______protects your organs____________
5. _____stores minerals and other materials until your body needs
them______
SHAPE AND SUPPORT
1. Your skeleton determines the shape of your body__
.
2. The backbone or vertebral column = center of the skeletal system.
MOVEMENT AND SUPPORT
1 Your skeleton allows you to move.
2 Bones work with muscles to produce movement.
Some bones produce blood cells (long arm and leg bone)
Bones store minerals such as calcium and phosphorus______
When your body needs these minerals, ____the bones release small amounts of them in to the
blood.___________