What is it?
What is the masseter?
The lower jaw.
What is the purpose of bones?
Support, protection, stores calcium and fat, and produces blood cells.
What joint is in the hip?
Ball-and-socket joint
Your bone marrow is yellow, not white.
True
Helps with movement of bones
Joints
What is the strongest bone?
Your femur.
What do your ribs protect?
Kidneys, heart, and lungs.
What is the name of the joint that lets your rotate?
Pivot joint
False, there are 206 bones in the body.
Holds bone to bone
Ligaments
What is the purpose of cartilage?
Cushions and absorbs shock preventing direct impact on bones.
Produces red blood cells.
What is the name of the joint that allows extension?
Saddle joint
Bones are classified as long, short, flat, irregular, sesmoid, fascia.
False, fascia is not a bone classification.
Hold bones to muscles
Tendons
What are the joint classifications?
Synarthrosis, amphiarthrosis, diathrosis.
What is the purpose of ligaments?
Connects bones together.
Hinge joint
The pivot joints rotation can only be internal.
False, the rotation can be external.
Protects your brain
Cranium
What is in the appendicular skeleton?
Clavicle, scapula, humerus, pelvic bones, patella, metatarsals, and phalanges.
What are the 5 purposes of the skeletal system?
Body support, movement, protection, storage of minerals and fat, blood cell formation.
What joint is between two flat bones that are held together by ligaments?
Gliding joint
Your tibula is above your fibula.
False, your fibula is above your tibula.
A structure made up of bones
Skeleton