What is it?
What is it's Purpose?
Joints and connective tissue
True or False
Vocabulary
100
What is the mandible?
What is the scientific name for your lower jaw?
100
What does the skeletal system do?
What is movement and support
100
What is the name of a joint that can move in almost any direction?
What is the ball-and-socket joint?
100
When you are a baby you have more bones than when you grow to adulthood
True
100
A structure made up of bones and connective tissues
What is the skeleton?
200
What is the longest and strongest bone in your body?
What is your femur
200
What does bone marrow do?
What is produces red blood cells
200
What tissue connects bone to bone?
What is a ligament?
200
The bones of your skull are initially separate to provide extra protection to your brain
What is false
200
Protects your brain (hint: not the entire skull)
What is the cranium?
300
The medullary cavity in the center of your bone contains what organic substance?
What is bone marrow?
300
What is the purpose of the organic portion of your bone?
What is to give your skeleton flexibility
300
What is the name of the type of joint that surrounds your knee?
What is a synovial joint?
300
Your radius rotates over your ulna when your rotating your wrist
What is true
300
Allows the movement of bones
What are joints?
400
What connective tissue holds bone to muscle?
What are tendons
400
What do your maxilla and mandible do?
What is hold and protect your teeth?
400
What type of joints are formed by the sutures of your skull?
What are fibrous joints
400
Your spinal chord is also known as your vertebral column
What is false. FALSE. SUPER FALSE.
400
Form concentric rings that permeate the bone
What is the osteon?
500
Which fused bones of your vertebral column can be found inside your pelvis?
What are the cocyx and your sacrum
500
What is the purpose of the haversian canals that run vertically through your osteons?
What is provide channels for nerves and blood vessels to run through?
500
What types are joints that form naturally due to the aging process?
What are the bony joints
500
Your metatarsals are your fingers
What is false. METACARPALS are your fingers. MetaTARSALs are your toes.
500
Travel at right angles to the haversian canals; transport blood vessels and provide energy and nourishment to the osteons.
What are perforating canals
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