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This 54-card flashcard set covers major health and anatomy topics for 8th Grade, including physical fitness concepts, skin and dental health, eye and ear structure, skeletal and muscular systems, and nervous system disorders. Topics include muscle types, bone formation, joint classifications, and conditions like scoliosis and epilepsy. Use it for exam review, anatomy vocabulary practice, or supplemental study during a health or biology unit.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Health & Nutrition
Grade Level:
8th Grade
Updated April 2025

Terms in This Set

  • What is a purposeful activity that is planned and repetitive, to improve physical fitness.
  • Any form of movement that causes your body to use energy.
  • What lifestyle involves little physical activity.
  • What is the ability to carry out daily tasks easily and have enough energy to respond to unexpected demands.
  • To ___ yourself to something is to give time or effort to it.
  • The completion of a cycle?
  • Which describes the ability to move your body parts through their full range of motion?
  • Which describes an intense, short burst of activity in which muscles work very hard?
  • Your muscles ability to perform physical tasks over a period of time without tiring?
  • Which is the amount of force your muscles can exert?
  • Gentle cardiovascular activity that prepares the muscles for work.
  • Low-level activity that prepares your body to return to a resting state.
  • The part of an exercise session when you are exercising at your highest peak.
  • The number of times your heart beats per minute when you are not active.
  • Exercising at a level that’s beyond your regular daily activities.
  • Overstretching and tearing a muscle.
  • Damage to the skin and tissues caused by extreme cold.
  • Overworking the body.
  • Sudden and sometimes painful contractions of the muscles?
  • Injuries to the ligaments around a joint.
  • A pigment that gives the skin, hair, and iris of the eyes their color?
  • To get rid of?
  • Structures within the skin that produce an oily secretion called sebum?
  • The outer, thinner layer of the skin that is composed of living and dead cells?
  • The most serious form of skin cancer.
  • Which is a misalignment of the upper and lower teeth, also referred to as a “bad bite”?
  • Which is an inflammation caused by bacterial infection?
  • Which is made up of the gum, periodontal ligaments, and the jawbone?
  • Which is a layer of tissue that extends to the root canal?
  • Which is made up of the gum, periodontal ligaments, and the jawbone?
  • The inner layer of the eye wall.
  • A condition in which a ringing sound is heard in the ear.
  • The inner ear.
  • The transparent tissue that bends and focuses light before it enters the lens.
  • The white part of the eye.
  • A strong, flexible connective tissue?
  • The process by which bone is formed, renewed, and repaired?
  • A fibrous cord that attaches muscle to the bone?
  • A condition involving a progressive loss of bone tissue?
  • A lateral or side-to-side curvature of the spine.
  • Which type of muscle can be found in the digestive tract and the urinary bladder?
  • Which type of muscle attaches to bone that cause body movement?
  • Which is a type of skeletal muscle that closes a joint?
  • Which type of skeletal muscle opens a joint?
  • Which type of muscle forms the wall of the heart?
  • Nerve Cells?
  • The largest and most complex part of the brain.
  • The second largest part of the brain.
  • A 3” long stalk of nerve cells & fibers that connects the spinal cord to the rest ofthe brain?
  • A disorder of the nervous system that is characterized by recurrent seizures?
  • Which body parts are made up of long bones?
  • The elbow, knee, and ankle are examples of which type of joint?
  • Recurrent seizures characterize which disorder of the nervous system?
  • Which type of fracture is completely across the bone?

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