These kinds of bones are longer than they are wide.
What are long bones?
100
This bone is the longest and strongest bone in the human body.
What is the femur?
100
This is the most valuable type of bone material.
What is ivory?
100
Bones contain this percentage of water.
What is 20 percent?
100
This bone looks like one bone, but is actually 28.
What is the skull?
200
These types of bones are thin and broad.
What are flat bones?
200
These 3 bones are the smallest bones in the human body.
What are the ossicles?
200
This "bone" is really not a bone at all. It is a nerve that lies between the skin and bone at the bend of the elbow. When you hit it, it causes tingling all the way to the fingers.
What is the funny bone?
200
This happens to bones as we get older.
What is grow together?
200
This is the exclusive club with backbones that humans belong to.
What is vertebrates?
300
These types of bones are about as long as they are wide.
What are short bones?
300
This fibrous tissue in the bone is laced with blood vessels that nourish the bone and carry waste away.
What is the periosteum?
300
In this place, people have a ritual that involves turning the bones of dead people, entertaining them and giving them new gifts.
What is Madagascar?
300
This term is used to describe animals without backbones.
What is invertebrate?
300
This is the Greek word for bone.
What is osteon?
400
These types of bones come in various shapes to accomplish special jobs.
What are irregular bones?
400
This tissue produces red blood cells and some platelets.
What is red bone marrow?
400
Bones are made up of these three minerals that are also found in rocks.
What are calcium, magnesium, and phosphates?
400
This is the number of bones we have at birth.
What is 300?
400
These six parts allow a baby's brain to grow during it's first year.
What are the soft spots?
500
These types of bones are usually found near joints and help with movement. They are called sesamold bones because they resemble sesame seeds.
What are round bones?
500
This honeycombed tissue helps absorb shocks and carries the body's weight.
What is cancellous or spongy bone?
500
This scientist studies bones.
What is a paleontologist?
500
This is the number of bones we have by the age 20.
What is 206?
500
The human body is divided into these two types of skeletons.
What are the avial and the appendicular skeletons?