Transcript Your Support System http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vya4wpS2fgk Composed of: bones, cartilage, ligaments and tendons Function: 1. Provide support and shape to the body 2.

Your Support System
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vya4wpS2fgk
Composed of: bones, cartilage, ligaments and
tendons
Function:
1. Provide support and shape to the body
2. Protection of internal organs
3. Locomotion (movement)
4. Produce blood cells
5. Stores minerals and nutrients
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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
Human body
has 206 bones.
http://sv.berkeley.edu/showcase/pages/bones.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMglTDY-JOQ&feature=related