What is it?
What is the primary function of the skeletal system?
What allows for movement and keeps you upright (Support)?
What is the name of a joint that allows for bending and straightening?
What is the hinge joint?
This holds bone to bone?
What is a ligament?
What does bone marrow do?
Produces red blood cells
Osteoporosis is a condition in which a significant loss of bone mass causes bones to become weak and break easily.
What is true?
This is a break in a bone.
What is a fracture?
This forms when two bones meet each other?
What is a joint?
This joint is connected from your head to the first vertebrae?
What is the pivot joint?
This is an overstretched or torn ligament?
What is a sprain?
What do your ribs do?
What is protects your heart & lungs?
Name the 4 different joints we covered.
What are the pivot joints, hinge joints, ball and socket joints, and gliding joints?
Your humerus is located in the lower leg.
What is false?
Upper arm
An injury that occurs when the ends of the bones in a joint are forced out of their normal positions.
What is a dislocation?
This bone is located by your knee and is also known as the kneecap.
What is the patella?
This is a supportive tissue that prevents 2 bones rubbing on each other, almost like a pad?
What is cartilage?
What is the joints that allow movement in many
directions as the bones slide along each other?
Your wrists and ankles contain these joints.
What is the gliding joint?
An abnormal curvature of the spine.
What is scoliosis?