Upper Body Parts
What is another word for your collar bone? What Latin word does it come from?
Your collar bone= clavicle.
Latin word= clavicula
What is another name for your calf bone?
Fibula
What is periosteum bone?
Periosteum is the outer layer of the bone. A membrane containing nerves and blood vessels.
What is the most mobile type of joint?
Ball and Socket Joint
What is your upper jaw?
Maxilla
What bones helps you extend and rotate and also connect the elbow to the wrist?
Ulna and Radius
What is the longest, largest and strongest bone in the human body?
Femur
What is compact bone?
Compact bone is the part you see when looking at a skeleton. It is smooth and rough.
What is the 2nd largest and strongest bone in the human body?
Tibia
What bone protects vital organs that is in the middle of your chest?
Sternum
What bone protects reproductive organs?
Pelvis
What layer of the bone is like a thick jelly?
Bone marrow.
The examples of this joint is the shoulder and hip. What is the name of this joint?
Ball and Socket joint
How many ribs do you have?
24 ribs
What bone helps you reach, pull, lift and push?
Humerus
What bones provide support and walking movement?
Tarsals and Metatarsals
What layer of bone looks like a sponge?
Cancellous bone.
What joint allows flexibility and great movement?
Gliding joint
Your cranium protects your sense of what?
Sense, vision, taste, smell, hearing, balance
What are the three types of phalanges?
Proximal, Intermediate and Phalanx
What is your coccyx also known as?
Your tailbone
What protects bone marrow?
Cancellous bone
The examples of this joint is the base of your skull, radius and ulna. What is the name of the joint?
Pivot joint
What is the Greek word that means skull?
Kranion