Function of Bones
What do bones need in order to survive and remain healthy?
What is oxygen and food
Which bone protects the spinal cord?
What is the vertebral column.
What is another name for the jaw bone?
What is the mandible.
The maxilla is located where?
What is above the mandible/jaw.
What bone is located in the forearm and connects to the thumb?
What is the radius
What are the main functions of bones?
What is to provide protection and support to the body.
Which bone protects the brain?
What is the skull
What is another name for the shin bone?
What is the tibia
Where is the fibula located?
What is behind the tibia/shin
What is the longest and strongest bone in the body?
What moves the bones of the skeleton?
What are muscles
Which bone protects the heart and lungs?
What is the ribs.
What is another name for the funny bone and where is it located?
What is the humerus and its located in the upper arm.
Where is the sacrum located?
The sacrum is the bone above the coccyx/tailbone.
What is the smallest bone in the body?
What is the stapes
How many bones are in an infant?
What is about 300
What is the bone that protects the nose?
What is the nasal bone
What is another name for the knee cap?
What is the patella.
Where are the metatarsals located?
What is the foot
The skeletal system is broken up into two parts what are they?
What is axial and appendicular
Why do infants have more bones than adults?
What is they fuse together as you grow
What is the bone that protects the top of the back, lungs and ribcage?
What is the scapula
What is another name for cheek bones?
What is zygomatic
Where is the sternum located?
What is in the middle of the ribcage
What bones make up the axial skeleton?
The skull, ribs, and vertebral column