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 * Isabella delgado, pedro felipe palacio, juan jose gonzalez, daniella cortes **

** The skeletal system **
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What is the Skeletal System? Your Skeletal system is all of the bones in the body. Your teeth are also considered part of your skeletal system but they are not counted as bones. Your teeth are made of enamel and dentin. Enamel is the strongest substance in your body.

How does the Skeletal System help us? **Support**The main job of the skeleton is to provide support for our body. Without your skeleton your body would collapse into a heap. Your skeleton is strong but light. Without bones you'd be just a puddle of skin and guts on the floor. our skeletal system help us for many reasons, one is to survive. the skeletal system is what keeps our body in shape, protects our internal organs, such as the heart, brain and lungs.


 * Protection Your skeleton also helps protect your internal organs and fragile body tissues. The brain, eyes, heart, lungs and spinal cord are all protected by your skeleton. Your cranium (skull) protects your brain and eyes, the ribs protect your heart and lungs and your vertebrae (spine, backbones) protect your spinal cord.

Movement Bones provide the structure for muscles to attach so that our bodies are able to move. Tendonsm are tough inelastic bands that hold attach muscle to bone.

extra info: Have you thought about how would you be if you had no bones?you´ll look like a mass, which would collapse. ..... very intresting

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fun fact:did you know ? when we are old our bones will be easier to break ......... also you know that when you dance hip hop music you move more than 190 BONES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

another fun fact is that babies have more bones than ADULTS!!!! when we are born we have about 300 bones. as we grow, our small bones join together to make big ones. adults end with about 206 bones.

the skeletal system is very important because helps you to move the body how you want to.

WOOOW!!! look how many bones you have in your body.you really have 206 difrent kind of bones!!!!!'

the different parts of the body:

hands and feets: the bones of the hands and feet are flexible. the bones in our feets are shorter and fatter than the bones of the fingers. this helps us to to balance into our two feets. there are 26 bones in our feets and 27 in our hands.

hips: the hip bones help us stand upright and move. each hip is made up of three different bones. when we are born, these three bones were separated. as we get older, they begin to join together.

bones of the face: the main function is the chewing of food we eat during the day.

ribs: there are twelve pairs of ribs bones wrap around the body to protect organs such as the heart and the lungs.

animals use there muscular and skeletal system for support