6th Grade Health Chapter 6-2 pgs. 154-160
Main Topic Bones, Muscles, Blood, and Lungs
Learn About How the skeletal and muscular systems support and move your body How the circulatory system moves blood throughout your body How the respiratory system works to help you breathe
Vocabulary Skeletal system: a framework of bones and the tissues that connect those bones
Vocabulary Joints: places where one bone meets another
Vocabulary Muscular System: all the muscles in your body
Vocabulary Circulatory System: enables the body to transport, or move, materials from one place to another
Vocabulary Heart: the muscle that acts as the pump for the circulatory system
Vocabulary Blood Pressure: the force of the blood pushing against the walls of the blood vessels
Vocabulary Respiratory System: enables you to breathe
Vocabulary Lungs: the main organs of the respiratory system
Vocabulary Diaphragm: a large muscle at the bottom of the chest
Other Important Information Adults have 206 separate bones in their bodies. Joints (page 155) Pivot (neck) Hinge (elbow) Ball and Socket (hip) Muscles (page 156) Voluntary: arms, face, abdomen, and back Involuntary: stomach 4 main types of blood A, B, AB, and O How you breathe (page 160)