IV. Chapter 4

Question 0

What vital organs do the skeletal system protect?

Answer 0

Cranium (brain), ribs (heart and lungs), vertebral column (spinal cord)

Question 1

What are the functions of the skeletal system?

Answer 1

1. The skeleton gives the body support and shape.
2. The skeleton protects vital organs
3. The skeleton is an important process of movement
4. Your bones store minerals
5. The bone marrow in your bones produce blood cells

Question 2

How many bones are there in an adult and child body?

Answer 2

206 bones in an adult body and 300 bones in a child’s body

Question 3

What happens to the bones in a child?

Answer 3

They’re separated by regions if cartilage which grow or fuse together as the body matures to form solid bones.

Question 4

Tendon

Answer 4

Connects a bone to the muscle

Question 5

Ligament

Answer 5

Connects a bone to a bone

Question 6

Cartilage

Answer 6

Surrounds organs and composes body parts; lines the ends of bones where they meet in a structure called a joint

Question 7

What is synovial fluid?

Answer 7

It’s a fluid between your bones and cartilage at your joints which acts as a lubricant between bones to help them move

Question 8

What’s a joint?

Answer 8

A place where two or more bones come in contact with one another.

Question 9

Ball and socket joint

Answer 9

A joint in which the head of one bone fits into a groove or indentation called a socket of another bone(s): shoulder and hip. This joint allows movement in virtually any direction.

Question 10

Pivot joint

Answer 10

Allows movement in a semi-circular motion: where spine attaches to cranium or the joint between the radius and the ulna.

Question 11

Hinge joint

Answer 11

Joint between bones that allows movement in only one direction: ulna and humerus (elbow), femur and tibia (knee), joints of the digits (fingers and toes)

Question 12

Plane joint

Answer 12

Joint where flat bones meet to glide or slide against one another- joints of the wrists and ankles.

Question 13

Saddle joint

Answer 13

Joint that allows movement in two directions, like the thumbs, allowing it to cross over the hand.

Question 14

Immovable joint

Answer 14

Joints where bones meet that cannot move; the bones that make up the skull (cranium)

Question 15

Bones are living and require…

Answer 15

Blood, food and oxygen like any other tissue

Question 16

Girls and boys’ bones will grow until…

Answer 16

Girls, 16 years old

Boys, 18 years old

Question 17

Yellow bones marrow stores…

Answer 17

Fats (in the middle part of the bones)

Question 18

Red bone marrow makes…

Answer 18

Red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets (found in flat bones like ribs, scapula, pelvis, and at the end long bones)

Question 19

Cranium

Answer 19

Composed of eight bones fused together (in the head or the skull)

Question 20

Vertebrae

Answer 20

33 bones at birth that make up the vertebral column to protect the spinal cord, some of these fuse together as you grow do that an adult has 24 individual vertebrae and 2 sets of fused vertebrae.

Question 21

Mandible

Answer 21

Jawbone

Question 22

Clavicle

Answer 22

Collar bone

Question 23

Scapula

Answer 23

Shoulder blade

Question 24

Ribs and rib cage

Answer 24

Men and women both has 24 ribs (10 pairs attach to both the spinal cord and sternum and two pairs are "floating ribs" which attack only to the vertebral column)

Question 25

Sternum

Answer 25

Chest bone which ends in a thin point called the xiphoid process

Question 26

Humerus

Answer 26

Upper arm bone

Question 27

Radius and Ulna

Answer 27

Lower arm bones

Question 28

Femur

Answer 28

Upper leg bone and the longest, strongest bone in the human body that's able to protect 30x your body weight.

Question 29

Patella

Answer 29

Knee bones

Question 30

Tibia and Fibula

Answer 30

Lower leg bones; the tibia is known as the shin bone

Question 31

Carpals and Metacarpals

Answer 31

Bones of the hands (metacarpals) and wrist (carpals)

Question 32

Tarsals and Metatarsals

Answer 32

Bones of the ankle (tarsals) and foot (metatarsals)

Question 33

Digits or Phalanges

Answer 33

Fingers and toes

Question 34

Arthritis

Answer 34

A disease of an inflammation around a joint that causes pain during movement.

Question 35

Leukemia

Answer 35

Cancer originating in the bone marrow which inhibits the body's ability to fight disease.