Dem Bones
This is the longest single bone and where it is located.
What is the femur and the thigh?
These are 3 of the 5 types of vertebrae.
This substance is found inside bones and comes in two colors.
What is marrow?
These are the only 2 things a muscle can do.
What are contracting and relaxing?
This kind of joint allows a bone to move in any direction.
What is a ball and socket joint?
These are the bones of the palm.
What are the metacarpals?
This is the word for a skeleton inside of the body.
What is an endoskeleton?
This is the hard outer layer of bones that gives them their strength.
What is Compact Bone?
These bundles of fibrous tissue connect bones to muscle.
What are tendons?
This joint helps the head rotate left and right.
What is a pivot joint?
This is the front bone in your shoulders, known as the collar bone.
What is the clavicle?
This is the name of the process that has led to the skeletons of vertebrates adapting to their environments over millions of years.
What is evolution?
This is the name of the rubbery tissue that cushions your bones at the joints.
What is cartilage?
This is the name of the muscle that straightens your arm.
What is the tricep?
This is the kind of joint found between the tarsals.
What is a gliding joint?
This bone is located beneath the eye socket
What is the zygoma?
These are 3 of the 5 functions of the skeleton.
What are (any three of) Shape and structure, produces blood cells, works with muscles to enable movement, stores minerals, protect internal organs?
This is the name of the process by which bones form and grow.
What is ossification?
These are the three types of muscle.
What are cardiac, smooth, and skeletal?
This is the fibrous tissue that holds bones together.
What are ligaments?
The skull, ribs, sternum, vertebrae, sacrum, and coccyx are all part of this central part of the skeleton.
What is the axial skeleton?
This is a branching "tree" of different species that shows how each species is related to others by showing which traits they share and where they diverged
What is a cladogram?
This is the thin, skin-like membrane that covers bones where tendons, ligaments, and blood vessels all connect to the bone
What is Periosteum?
This is a 1000 point question.
This is the name of the spiny protrusions at the back of the vertebrae that muscles connect to.
What are (spinous) processes?
This is the name of a disease that affects the joints, usually in older people, and makes it painful to move by reducing the protective tissue between the bones.
What is arthritis?