Skeletal System
What does the skeleton do for the body?
Provides structure and protection
Vertebrates have a _________
Backbone
Give an example of a long bone in the human body
What is the Humerous or Femur
Which group of bones help form your face?
What are the facial skull bones
What material protects the end of long bones so that we can move without having bone touch bone
What is cartilage
How many bones in the adult human body?
What are 206 bones in an adult
Which type of organisms does not have a backbone?
What are Invertebrates.
What is an example of a flat bone?
(DAILY DOUBLE)
What is your "collar bone" or a rib bone
What do the bones of the cranial skull do?
They protect the brain
What is the name of the bone that is found at the end of a long bone
What is spongy bone
Bones are 70% __________________
Invertebrates include organisms from two different skeletal systems
Those with exoskeletons and Hydrostatic Skeletons
Your ankle bone, the Talus, is an example of which type of bone?
What is the scientific name for the jaw bone?
What is the mandible
Inside a long bone, you will find what type of marrow
What is yellow bone marrow
True or false: Bones are still growing for most people when they are in their 20's
What is True
Humans belong to which group, vertebrates or invertebrates?
What are vertebrates.
Why is your kneecap called an Irregular bone?
It has a unique shape that is not like other bones.
True or false: the skull is made up on one solid bone
False, there are many parts to the skull
What does the periosteum do?
It is like a skin protecting the outside of the bone
Why were we able to bend the chicken bones after they soaked in vinegar?
The vinegar dissolved the calcium, leaving behind the collagen which will bend.
Name an organism that is an invertebrate
Examples: worms, jelly fish, octopus, star fish,
True or false: the femur and the humerus are the same type of bone? What is the type?
True. They are both Long Bones.
The Cranial skull is made up of many plates, name one of the parts.
What is the frontal lobe, the temporal lobe, the parietal love, or the occipital lobe
On the outside and inside of the bone are arteries and veins. What does each one do?
Arteries (red) bring blood to the bone.
Veins (blue) take blood away from the bone and back to the heart and lungs