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Skeletal and Muscular Systems Flashcards

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This 26-card flashcard set covers the skeletal and muscular systems for fourth graders. It addresses bones, joints, ligaments, muscles, posture, and how the body's support system works—including specific structures like the spine, ribs, shoulders, and the relationship between muscles and movement. Use it for science chapter review, vocabulary drilling, or unit assessment prep.

Subject:
Science
Topic:
Anatomy
Grade Level:
4th Grade
Updated February 2025

Terms in This Set

  • Tough fibers or cords that hold the bones together
  • your bony framework
  • Knees, elbows and fingers have what kind of joints?
  • Shoulders and hips have what kind of joints?
  • your body's main support
  • the thirty-three small bones that make up the spinal column
  • protects your heart and lungs
  • Milk and sunshine help you get what?
  • something you do without thinking about it
  • the way you hold your body when you sit, stand, or move about
  • How should you lift?
  • How many muscles do you have in your body?
  • muscles that are connected to your skeleton
  • the muscle on your forehead that raises your eyebrows
  • the muscle that raises your lower jaw
  • the muscle you use to shrug your shoulders
  • strong skeletal muscles that cover your abdomen
  • strong, white fibers, or sword that connect the skeletal muscles to bones
  • Nerves that carry messages from your brain and spinal cord to your muscles
  • skeletal muscles that move when you want them to
  • Another name for your heart
  • What your muscles are made mostly of
  • a sudden sharp pain cause by a lack of calcium
  • the thousands of fine long threads that voluntary muscles are made of
  • the steady contraction of muscles
  • damage to a muscle caused by overstretching

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