Axial Skeleton
The bones that protect your organs.
What is the thoracic cage? (ribcage)
The longest bone in your skeleton.
What is a femur?
A joint that has full range of motion.
What are ball and socket joints?
The type of bones that make up your vertebrae.
The funniest bone.
What is the humerus? (haha)
The bones that protect your spinal cord.
What is the vertebral column?
What bone protects the knee joint?
What is the patella? (kneecap)
The joint that connects your radius and ulna.
What is a pivot joint?
The type of bone that makes up your phalanges.
What are long bones?
This replaces most of the red marrow in the medullary cavity in adults.
What is yellow marrow?
The part of your spine that has 7 vertebrae.
What is the cervical vertebrae?
What are metacarpals?
The joints separated by a fluid-filled cavity.
What is diarthroses?
The type of bone that stores red marrow.
What is spongey bone?
The number of bones in the human body.
What is 206?
The bone that is on the side of the skull. (near your temples)
What is the temporal bone?
The bones in your feet. (3 types)
What are tarsals, metatarsals, and phalanges?
The type of joints on your ribcage.
What is amphiarthroses?
The type of bone that makes up your tarsals and carpals.
What are short bones?
False ribs that are not directly connected to your sternum.
What are ribs 8-12?
A bone that when struck hard enough, can cause all the muscles in the spine to contract.
What is the coccyx? (tailbone)
The bones that connect your arms to the axial skeleton.
What is the pectoral girdle? (scapula and clavicle)
The amount of movement allowed by synarthroses joints.;
What is immoveable?
The formations around central canals that store blood vessels and nerves.
What is an osteon?
The number of bones in your skull.
What is 22? (8 cranial bones, and 14 facial bones)