The Skeletal System Jeopardy Game

Bones of the Skull

100

Bone #1

What is the mandible?

200

Bone #2

What is the nasal bone?

300

Bone #3

What is the occipital?

400

Bone #4

What is the sphenoid bone?

500

Bone #5

What is the mastoid process?

Axial Portion

100

Bone #6

What is the sternum?

200

Bone #7

What are the 2 floating ribs?

300

Bone #8

What are the 12 thoracic vertebrae? 

400

Bone #9

What is the sacrum?

500

Bone #10

What is the xiphoid process?

Joints

100

Joint between humerus and ulna. 

What is the hinge joint?

200

What is the name of the joint that is like a baseball pitcher getting ready to throw the ball?

What is the ball and socket joint?

300

What is the name of the joint that allows extension?

What is the saddle joint

400

What is the name of the joint that lets you rotate?

What is the pivot joint

500

What is the joint located in your elbow and kneecap?

What is the hinge joint

Appendicular Portion

100

Bone #11

What is the clavicle?

200

Bone #12

What are the tarsals?

300

Bone #13

What is the tibia?

400

Bone #14

What are the metacarpals?

500

Bone #15

What is the radius?

Bone Physiology

100

These are the cells of the skeletal system.

What are osteocytes?

200

These are the two types of skeletal tissue?

What are spongy and compact tissue?

300

These are the 5 major types of bones.

What are planar, long, short, irregular, and sesamoid bones?

400

The ends and the middle of a long bone. 

What are the epiphysis and the diaphysis?

500

Describe the five major steps in long bone growth. 

1. Formation of bone collar. 

2. Cavitation within cartilage matrix.

3. Periosteal bud and spongy bone formation.

4. Formation of medullary cavity and secondary ossification center. 

5. Ossification of the epiphysis and formation of epiphyseal line.