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What is it?
What is it's Purpose?
What Joint?
True or False
Vocabulary
100
The bulge that occurs in a broken bone while it is healing
What is a callus?
100
Gives support & shape, protects organs, and stores fats and minerals
What does your skeleton do?
100
Offers a limited range of motion but is very stable. Examples are elbows and knees.
What is a hinge joint?
100
A baby has more bones than the adult.
What is true?
100
Joints that do NOT move
What are sutures?
200
The smallest bone in your body
What is the stapes?
200
Connect a bone to another bone
What do ligaments do?
200
Offers a wide range of motion but are less stable than hinge joints. Examples are hips and shoulders.
What is the ball and socket joint?
200
Your body gets vitamin D straight from the sun.
What is false?
200
Extends from your brain down your back through your the "donut holes" of each of your vertebrae. It is part of your nervous system.
What is the spinal cord?
300
Bones that are small and usually rounded, like small stones. The patella is an example.
What is a sesamoid bone?
300
It is the kind of marrow that makes blood cells.
What does red bone marrow do?
300
The range of motion is less than a ball-and-socket joint, but more than a hinge joint. The ankle is an example.
What is the saddle joint?
300
Metatarsals are in your hands.
What is false?
300
Fluid that allows your joints to move more easily
What is synovial fluid?
400
The rounded part of the skull
What is the cranium?
400
It allows your bones to be resilient, bouncing back when compressed.
What does spongy bone do?
400
When you shake your head "no," you are using this joint that connects your skull to your vertebral column.
What is the pivot joint?
400
Osteoblasts are the cells that make new bone.
What is true?
400
Short bones that are usually about the same height and width
What are short bones?
500
A mineral stored in your bones that helps keep your heart beating and your brain thinking. It also makes your bones strong.
What is calcium?
500
They guard your heart and lungs.
What do ribs do?
500
Your vertebrae are connected with this type of joint. They allow you to bend and twist your back.
What is a plane joint?
500
The femur is the longest bone in your body.
What is true?
500
The outside layer of a bone, a thin, tough membrane
What is periosteum?