Soc12 skeletal system

Question 1

What are the five functions of the skeletal system?

Answer 1

• Protection of vital organs
• muscle attachment
• joints for movement
• storing calcium and phosphorus
• red and white blood cell production

Question 2

What is the bone that protects the brain and covers the head?

Answer 2

Cranium

Question 3

What is the bone on the upper arm?

Answer 3

Humerus

Question 4

What is the bone that protect the heart and lung and covers around them?

Answer 4

Ribs

Question 5

What is the larger bone in the lower leg that sum refer to as the shin?

Answer 5

Tibia

Question 6

What is the smaller outer of the two lower leg bones that extend from the knee?

Answer 6

Fibula

Question 7

What is the flat rounded bone (often called ‘knee cap’)

Answer 7

Patella

Question 8

What is the bone in the upper leg?

Answer 8

Femur

Question 9

What is the bone that forms the upper jaw?

Answer 9

Maxilla

Question 10

What js the bone that forms the lower jaw and part of the ‘skull’

Answer 10

Mandible

Question 11

What is the bone located in the shoulder and know as the ‘shoulder bone’

Answer 11

Scapula

Question 12

What is the bone that makes up toes and fingers on the hand and foot?

Answer 12

Phalanges

Question 13

What is the bone that stretches from the elbow to the smallest finger?

Answer 13

Ulna

Question 14

What is the bone that runs from the elblow to the thumb?

Answer 14

Radius bone

Question 15

What is the bone that some people call the “collar bone” located above the rib chage and near to the scapula?

Answer 15

Clavicle

Question 16

What is the bone located in the centeral part of the chest?-it connects to the ribs

Answer 16

Sternum

Question 17

What is Set of 7 irregular shaped bones in the ankle/foot area?

Answer 17

Tarsals

Question 18

What is the bones in the mid-foot that is connected to the tarsals and phalanges

Answer 18

Metatarsals

Question 19

What are the eight smallbones that make up the wrist?

Answer 19

Carpals

Question 20

What is the bone that is in the middle of the phalanges and carpals in thr hand?

Answer 20

Metacarpals

Question 21

What is thr bone in the lower part of the torso and is located between the abdomen and legs?

Answer 21

Pelvis

Question 22

What is the Largest of the three bones that fuse together over tike to form the outer section of the pelvis?

Answer 22

ilium

Question 23

What is the large bone located at the end of the vertebrae where it forms the back of the pelvis?

Answer 23

Sacrum

Question 24

What is the lower and back part of the hip bone?

-situated below the ilium

Answer 24

Ischium

Question 25

What is the upper part of your spine than some call the neck bone

Answer 25

Cervical vertebrae

Question 26

What is the bone in the second spinal column under the cervical vertebrae?

Answer 26

Thoracic vertebrae

Question 27

What is the third region of the vertebrae column?

Answer 27

Lumbar vertebrae

Question 28

What forms the 'hip bone'?

Answer 28

illum | Ischum

Question 29

What is the order is the vertebrae?

Answer 29

``` Cervical(7bones) Theracic(12 bones) Lumbar (5 bones) Sacrum(5 fused bones) Coccyx(4 fused bones) ```

Question 30

What are the 4 types of bones?

Answer 30

Long bones Short bones Irregular bones Flat bones

Question 31

Function of long bones:

Answer 31

Generate movement(leavers)/strength

Question 32

Function of short bones

Answer 32

Weight bearing | Shock absorption

Question 33

What is the Function of irregular bones?

Answer 33

Irregular bones have odd shapes and perform a range of functions. - some have special shapes so they can protect something(eg vertebrae) - others have attachment points for muscle

Question 34

Flat bones function

Answer 34

Protection of vital organs | A good surface area for muscles to attach to

Question 35

Some people call it the tail bone.

Answer 35

Coccyx

Question 36

What are long bones? Specification In sport Examples

Answer 36

Long bones are longer than they are wide (Doesn't have to be big, phalanges(finger bones) count as long bones) -Long bones have a shaft and two ends In sport: they are vital to generate movement,strength and speed. They act as LEVERS. When pulled by diffrent muscles they enable the bone to move. Examples: phalanges, femur, tibia, fibia

Question 37

What are short bones? Specification In sport Examples

Answer 37

Same size in length, width and thickness Examples: carpals,tarsals Sport: associated with WEIGHT BARING, sock obsorbtion, and spreading load. Play a key role in acrivities like jogging, tennis and dancing.

Question 38

What are flat bones? Specification In sport Examples

Answer 38

They protect organs and offer a good serface area to attac to.

Question 39

What are joints?

Answer 39

A place where two or more bones meet, - important for movement and rotation - all of them allow movement the extend of the freedom and the movement VARIES from join to joint

Question 40

What are Irregular bones?

Answer 40

Have odd shape and vary in function E.g vertebrae which protects the spinal cloumn -Sacrum which has a lot of attachment points

Question 41

Examples of long bones:

Answer 41

Femur Tibia Fibia Phalanges

Question 42

Example of short bones

Answer 42

Carpals | Tarsals

Question 43

Examples of flat bones

Answer 43

- clavicle - scapula - cranium

Question 44

Example of irregular bones?

Answer 44

- vertebrae | - sacrum

Question 45

How many bones are in the spinal column?

Answer 45

33

Question 46

What is ossification?

Answer 46

the natural process of bone formation the hardening (as of muscular tissue) into a bony substance. 2 : a mass or particle of ossified tissue. 3 : a tendency toward or state of being molded into a rigid, conventional, sterile, or unimaginative condition.