Specific Bones
This is the term used to describe the top portion of the skull.
What is the cranium?
This is one of the most important jobs of the top portion of the skull.
A.) To contain the body's electrical activity.
B.) To protect the brain.
C.) To circulate blood to facial features.
D.) To provide a counterbalancing weight for the human head.
What is to protect the brain?
What is:
A.) Bone is flexible and cartilage is firm.
B.) Cartilage is flexible and bone is firm.
C.) Bone is inside the body and cartilage is outside.
D.) None of the above.
What is cartilage is flexible and bone is firm?
This is the percentage of body weight usually made up by bones.
A.) 5%
B.) 15%
C.) 25%
D.) 50%
What is 15%?
This is the movement direction of muscles attached to bone.
A.) Pull movement only.
B.) Push movement only.
C.) Push and pull movement.
D.) None of the above.
What is pull movement ONLY?
These are the bones of the spine.
What are vertebrae?
This is the purpose of the rib cage.
A.) To protect the cartilage.
B.) To protect the heart and lungs.
C.) To protect the appendix.
D.) To support bone tissue.
What is to protect the heart and lungs?
This substance is in the center of long bones.
What is bone marrow?
This is what makes bones as strong as they are.
What is calcium and phosphate?
This is an example of a joint that can only move a little bit.
A.) Skull
B.) Elbow
C.) Rib
D.) Knee
What is a rib?
This is the common name for the carpal bones.
What are wrist bones?
This is the function of the human skeletal system.
A.) To support the body.
B.) To give the body shape.
C.) To work with muscles to move the body.
D.) All of the above.
What is all of the above?
The location where fat is stored in bones.
What is yellow bone marrow?
This is the average number of bones contained in an adult human body.
What is 206?
The name for the place where two bones are joined together.
What is a joint?
This is the largest bone in the human body.
What is the femur of the upper leg?
This is the function of a tendon.
What is to link muscles to bones?
The place where red blood cells are made.
What is bone marrow?
This is the disease of the joints that usually affects elderly people.
What is arthritis?
The function of a ligament.
This is the smallest bone in the human body.
What is the stirrup of the ear?
What are muscles?
This is the most important difference between compact bone and spongy bone.
What is they have a different layout of bone cells?
This type of tissue makes up bone tissue.
What is osseous?
The kind of joint that the hip is.
What is a ball and socket joint?