What is it?
The mandible.
What is the lower jaw?
Two functions of the skeletal system.
What are:
Framework of the body
support/protect internal organs
work with muscles/tendons for movement
formation of blood cells
This type of joint can move in one plane, typically in two directions such as back and forth.
What is a hinge joint?
This number is how many bones are in the axial skeleton.
What is 80?
The strongest long bone.
What is your femur?
Part of the bone that manufactures blood cells.
What is bone marrow?
The type of joint that is like a baseball pitcher getting ready to throw the ball, found in the shoulder and hip.
What is the ball and socket joint?
The name of the bones found in the middle ear.
What is ossicles?
Protects your brain.
What is the cranium?
Material inside the bones that changes color?
What is bone marrow?
This long bone is also your outer ankle bone.
What is fibula?
Normally present on the skull of a newborn, allow skull to collapse for passage through the birth canal. Also known as soft spots.
What is fontanelles?
You have twelve pairs of these.
What are ribs?
This system contains 126 bones.
What is the appendicular skeleton?
Fibrous tissue that connects bone to bone.
What are ligaments?
Shared skeletal function of maxilla and mandible. (Not muscular!)
What is holds your teeth?
This contains a capsule, a membrane, and fluid.
What are synovial joint(s)/components?
The primary purpose of the axial skeleton.
What is protects the major organs of the nervous, respiratory, and circulatory systems?
Spinal bones that help establish the pelvis.
What is the cocyx and your sacrum.
These bones protect the kidneys, heart, and lungs.
What is your ribs/ribcage?
The type of joint found in your elbow and knee.
What is the hinge joint?
This bone is located between the chin and thyroid in your throat.
What is hyoid bone?