Joints
The shoulder is an example of this type of joint.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
The three major components of the axial skeleton.
What are the skull, spinal column, and thorax?
The two main components of the appendicular skeleton.
What are the lower and upper extremities?
This connects muscle to bone.
What is a Tendon?
The skeletal system provides ___ for internal organs.
What is protection?
The elbow is an example of this type of joint.
What is a hinge joint?
The longest portion of the spinal column.
What is the thoracic vertebrae?
This bone is the longest and one of the strongest bones in the body.
What is the femur?
This connects bone to bone.
What is ligament?
This structure includes portions of both the axial and appendicular skeleton.
What is the pelvis?
The motions that hinge joints are restricted to.
What is flexion and extension?
These three groups make up the skull.
What are the cranium, facial bones, and small bones in the ear?
What is the ulna?
This cushion between bones.
What is cartilage?
There are ___ phalanges in the big toe and ___ phalanges in the smaller toes.
What is 2 and 3?