Axial Skeleton
The spine is also called this, and it helps you stand straight up and protects your spinal cord?
Vertebral column
When you high-five your friend, you’re using bones from this part of your skeleton.
Appendicular skeleton?
The skeleton is made up of bones that come together at these places allowing movement?
Joints
What protects your heart and lungs?
The rib cage
What is the scientific name for your collarbone?
The clavicle
How many bones are apart of the axial skeleton?
80 bones
How many bones are apart of the appendicular skeleton?
126 bones
The skeletal system works with this body system to help you move?
Muscular system
True or False
Your bones are completely solid all the way through?
False
True or False
You have more bones as a baby than as an adult?
True
What is the axial skeleton system of a tree?
Trunk
These two bones make up your lower leg—one is the tibia, and the other, smaller one, is called what?
Fibula
These hard structures inside your body make up the skeleton?
Bones
What connects bones to other bones?
Ligaments
About how many bones make up your spine? 10/26/52
26
There are 33 small bones stacked on top of each other in your back. They make up this structure?
Spinal Column (Vertebrae)
These bones in your shoulders let you do jumping jacks without your arms falling off.
Clavicle and Scapula
The red and white blood cells your body needs are made in this part of the bone?
Bone marrow
How many bones are in the human body?
206
The only moveable bone in the skull?
Mandible
The U-Shaped bone in your neck helps you speak and swallow?
Hyoid Bone
When you’re typing or playing video games, these small bones in your hand and fingers are hard at work?
carpals, metacarpals, and phalanges?
The skeleton stores this mineral that keeps your bones strong and muscles contract?
Calcium
What three things help support and connect bones?
Cartilage/Ligaments/Tendons
What is the only bone in your body that is not connected to another bone?
The hyoid bone