Chapter 6: The Skeletal System

• bones are connected to other bones by ligaments
• muscle are connected to bones by tendons
• place in the body where two or more bones meet

  joints
• the inner core of bone is composed of what?

  hematopoietic (blood cell-forming) red bone marrow
• minerals necessary for the growth of bones


  calcium and phosphorous
• in adult, red marrow is eventually replaced by


  yellow marrow
• bones are made up of connective tissues called

  osseuos or bony tissue