Your Noggin
You move this bone when you chew.
What is the Mandible?
This portion of the skeleton support and protects the head, neck, and trunk.
What is the Axial Skeleton?
This function of the skeletal system means that the bones are perfectly designed for bearing the weight of our bodies.
What is SUPPORT?
This LONG BONE is the longest one in the human body, almost 20 inches on average.
What is the FEMUR?
The immovable joint between flat bones of the skull.
What is a SUTURE?
This bone would most likely be the first point of contact if you fell straight backward without breaking your fall.
What is the Occipital bone?
This portion of the skeleton attaches to the axial skeleton and has the limbs attached to it.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
Because of this function, I can walk from here to there. I can run, jump, dance, and drag my feet.
What is MOVEMENT?
Many of your skull bones, your sternum, ribs and scapulae are this type of bone.
What is a FLAT bone?
This hollowed out region is covered with a thin membrane of pseudostratified epithelium.
What is a SINUS?
These skull bones come in pairs.
What are the Temporal or Parietal bones?
These are the regions of the vertebral column.
What are: cervical, thoracic, lumbar, sacrum, and coccyx?
The sternum and the ribs provide this for your heart and lungs.
What is PROTECTION?
This shaped bone includes bones that are thought to develop inside your tendons.
What are SESAMOID bones?
The mastoid PROCESS (a projection of bone) can be palpated (or felt) behind these.
What are your ears or ear lobes?
If we were facing each other and said, "Let's put heads together," we would lean in and touch with this bone.
The arms attach to this girdle.
What is the Pectoral girdle?
In the STORAGE function of your bones, these things are stored.
What are minerals such as calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium, and adipose tissue/fat (in the yellow bone marrow)?
The two places in the body that irregular shaped bones are most commonly found.
What are the facial/skull bones, and the vertebral column?
This part of your long bones is often called "the growth plate."
What is the epiphyseal plate or epiphyseal line?
This bone, is one of the seven bones that articulate to form the orbit, and is shaped like a butterfly or bat.
What is the Sphenoid bone?
Your feet and your hands both contain these.
What are phalanges?
This is the name for the process of manufacturing blood cells, a major functions of your skeletal system.
What is HEMOPOIESIS? (or hematopoiesis)
Your carpals and your tarsals.
What are short bones?
This part of the rib has more ability to regenerate bone than any other in the body.
What is the periosteum?