The skeletal system is your body's support structure. It gives your body its shape, allows movement, makes blood cells, provides protection for your organs and stores minerals. The skeletal system is also called the musculoskeletal system.
Motion is a change in position of an object over time. Motion is described in terms of displacement, distance, velocity, acceleration, time and speed.
The skeletal system is your body's support structure. It gives your body its shape, allows movement, makes blood cells, provides protection for your organs and stores minerals. The skeletal system is also called the musculoskeletal system.
Long bone – has a long, thin shape. Examples include the bones of the arms and legs (excluding the wrists, ankles and kneecaps). With the help of muscles, long bones work as levers to permit movement.
The locomotor system is also known as the musculoskeletal system. It is made up of the skeleton, skeletal muscles, ligaments, tendons, joints, cartilage and other connective tissue. These parts work together to allow your body to move.
DEFINNITION OF TERMS • Support – this is the ability of an organism to bear its own mass/weight and maintain its body form • Movement- this is the process by which an organism displaces parts of its body or the whole of its body from one place to another.