Bone Basics
What is the skeletal system mostly made of?
What is Bone?
The bone in your upper arm
What is the humerus?
This type of joint allows your knees and elbows to bend
What is a hinge joint?
The skeleton gives this to your body
What is structure or support?
Babies are born with more or fewer bones than adults?
What is more?
How many bones are in the adult human body?
What is 206?
The largest bone in the human body
What is the femur?
This joint type lets your shoulder rotate in many directions
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
It protects this important organ inside the skull
What is the brain?
True or False: Bones are alive and can repair themselves
What is true?
What do we call the material inside bones that makes blood cells?
What is bone marrow?
The bones in your fingers and toes
What are phalanges?
The joint in your neck that lets your head turn
What is a pivot joint?
This system works with muscles to help you move
What is the skeletal system?
The smallest bone in your body is in your ______.
What is ear?
What mineral makes bones hard and strong?
What is calcium?
The lower jawbone
What is the mandible?
The type of joint in your skull that doesn’t move
What is a fixed or immovable joint?
The ribs protect these two organs
What are the heart and lungs?
The skeletal system works with this system to move your body
What is the muscular system?
What is the process called when cartilage turns into bone?
What is ossification?
The bones that form your backbone
What are vertebrae?
The slippery tissue that cushions joints and helps bones glide
What is cartilage?
Besides support and protection, bones also store this essential mineral
What is calcium?
Name one way to keep your bones strong.(Two answers)
What is eating the right foods and exercising