What is it?
What is the primary function of the skeletal system?
What allows for movement and keeps you upright (Support)?
What is the name of a joint that allows for bending and straightening?
What is the hinge joint?
This is a break in a bone.
What is a fracture?
This holds bone to bone?
What is a ligament?
What does bone marrow do?
Produces red blood cells
What is the name of the joint that is near the shoulders and hips.
What is the ball and socket joint?
Osteoporosis is a condition in which a significant loss of bone mass causes bones to become weak and break easily.
What is true?
An injury that occurs when the ends of the bones in a joint are forced out of their normal positions.
What is a dislocation?
Inside the bones that has two colors?
What is bone marrow?
This forms when two bones meet each other?
What is a joint?
This joint is connected from your head to the first vertebrae?
What is the pivot joint?
The shoulder blade is also known as the scapula.
What is true.
An abnormal curvature of the spine.
What is scoliosis?
These bones are located on the end of your fingers and toes.
Phalanges
This is a supportive tissue that prevents 2 bones rubbing on each other, almost like a pad?
What is cartilage?
Name the 4 different joints we covered.
What are the pivot joints, hinge joints, ball and socket joints, and gliding joints?
Your Spine consists of 33 bones.
What is true?
This is an overstretched or torn ligament?
What is a sprain?
This bone is found on the outside of most bones. It is the hard outer layer that gives bones their smooth, white appearance.
What is compact bone?
Our feet help us bear weight, allow for movement, and transmit force. There are __ bones that make up the foot.
26
What is the joints that allow movement in many
directions as the bones slide along each other?
Your wrists and ankles contain these joints.
What is the gliding joint?
Your metatarsals are the bones in your fingers.
What is false?
Metacarpals.
The process during infancy and childhood in which cartilage is replaced by bone.
Ossification