bones

Question 1

What is the bone in your head?

Answer 1

Skull

Question 2

What is the bone in your jaw?

Answer 2

Mandible

Question 3

What is the bone in your collarbone?

Answer 3

Clavicle

Question 4

What is the bone in your shoulder blade?

Answer 4

Scapula

Question 5

What is the bone in the center of your chest?

Answer 5

Sternum

Question 6

What is the bone on your upper arm?

Answer 6

Humerus

Question 7

What is the bone in your lower arm connected to your thumb?

Answer 7

Radius

Question 8

What is the bone on the underside of your lower arm?

Answer 8

Ulna

Question 9

What is the bone in your wrist?

Answer 9

Carpal

Question 10

What is the bone in your palm?

Answer 10

Metacarpal

Question 11

What are the bones in your fingers/toes?

Answer 11

Phalanges

Question 12

What is the bone in your hips?

Answer 12

Pelvis

Question 13

What is the bone below your pelvis?

Answer 13

Sacrum

Question 14

What is the bone in your at the very bottom of your spine?

Answer 14

Coccyx

Question 15

What is the bone in your thigh?

Answer 15

Femur

Question 16

What is the thick bone in your calf?

Answer 16

Tibla

Question 17

What is the thin bone in your calf?

Answer 17

Fibula

Question 18

What is the bone in your heel?

Answer 18

Calcaneus

Question 19

What is the bone in your ankle?

Answer 19

Tarsal

Question 20

What is the bone in the bottom of your foot?

Answer 20

Metatarsal

Question 21

What is cartilage?

Answer 21

A firm tissue that is softer and more flexible than bone. It is found in many joints

Question 22

What is ossification?

Answer 22

The process of baby’s cartilage turning into bone

Question 23

What is an osteoblast and osteoclast?

Answer 23

Osteoblasts form new bone and are often found on the surface of bone and osteoclasts dissolve old bone tissue

Question 24

What three minerals can be found in bones?

Answer 24

Sodium, calcium and phosphorus

Question 25

What is collagen?

Answer 25

A protein that allows bones to resist tension

Question 26

What is cortical bone and cancellous bone?

Answer 26

Cortical is dense bone and cancellous is spongy

Question 27

What is red bone marrow and yellow bone marrow?

Answer 27

Red marrow creates blood cells and yellow marrow is mostly fat cells

Question 28

Why do we have bones?

Answer 28

To provide support, protect organs, help us move, store minerals, and produce blood cells

Question 29

What are the four kinds of joints?

Answer 29

Hinge, pivot, ball and socket, gliding

Question 30

Whats an example of a hinge joint?

Answer 30

Knee or elbow

Question 31

Whats an example of a pivot joint?

Answer 31

Vertebrae, radius and ulna

Question 32

Whats an example of a gilding joint?

Answer 32

Wrist and ankle

Question 33

Whats an example of a ball and socket joint?

Answer 33

Hip and shoulder

Question 34

What is a ligament?

Answer 34

Connects bone to bone

Question 35

What is a tendon

Answer 35

Connects muscle to bone

Question 36

What is a greenstick fracture?

Answer 36

A partial fracture where the bone doesn't completely break

Question 37

What is a hairline fracture?

Answer 37

When the bone fragments remain in aligment

Question 38

What is an open/compound fracture?

Answer 38

When the bone fully breaks and punctures the skin

Question 39

What is the difference between sprain and strain?

Answer 39

Sprain is the tear or stretching of a ligament and strain is the tear or stretching of a tendon or muscle

Question 40

What is the separation of two bones where they meet at a joint?

Answer 40

Dislocation

Question 41

What is osteoporosis?

Answer 41

A disease when bones become fragile

Question 42

What is scoliosis?

Answer 42

Curve in the spine

Question 43

What is arthritis?

Answer 43

Inflammation of a joint causing swelling

Question 44

What is osteoarthritis?

Answer 44

The breakdown of joint cartilage