# of bones
Arm bones
Bones of the Wrist and Hand
Bones of the Shoulder
General Skeletal System Questions
100

The number of bones are in the shoulder girdle.

What are two?

100

Name the bone of the upper arm.

What is the humerus?

100

The bones of the wrist are called . . . 

What are carpals?

100

The bone commonly known the collar bone is called the ____________________.

What is the clavicle?

100

Bone is a ________________ tissue.

What is connective.

200

The number of bones in the upper arm.

What are one?

200

If your arm is hanging straight down in a relaxed position, what is the name of the medial bone in your lower arm?  

What is the ulna?

200

The bones in the hand that are proximal to the wrist are . . . 

What are Metacarpals.

200

The bone commonly know as the shoulder blade, the large anterior portion of shoulder is called the ___________________ . 

What is the scapula?

200

The name of the end of a long bone is _____________.

What is ¨epiphysis¨.

300

The number of bones are in the lower arm.

What are two?

300

If your arm is hanging straight down in a relaxed position, what is the lateral bone in your lower arm? 

What is the radius?

300

The proximal bones of the hands are called . . . 

What are phalanges?

300

The bone that is closest to the superior portion of the humerus is called the _____________________ . 

What is Glenoid fossa?

300
The hollow portions of long bones is filled with _____________ marrow. 

What is red?

400

The number of bones that are carpals (or wrist bones).

What are eight?

400

The name of the uppermost part of the ulna.

What is the Olecranon of ulna?  

400

The lower ens of the radius and ulna articulate with some of the ____________________ to form the wrist joint.

What are ¨carpals¨?  

400

The most distal portion of the bones of the shoulder  that has a sharp rounded portion that sticks out is called the ________________ .

What is the acromion.

400

The anatomical name for soft spots is ________________________ . 

What are ¨fontanelles¨. 

500

The number of bones in the hand (phalanges and metacarpals).

What is 19?

500

The name of the inferior most portion of the humerus that is next to the ulna.

What is the Olecranon fossa?

500

The carpals articulate with ______________ metacarpals in the hand, which, in turn, articulate with the proximal phalanges of the fingers.

What are five?

500
The name of the largest posterior of the shoulder blade is called ________________.

What is the Infraspinous fossa?

500

The process of bone creation is called ___________.

What is ossification?

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