axial skeleton (knowledge)

Question 1

Skull

Answer 1

• support head
• support jaws, tongue and larynx
• protection of brain and sense organs
• feeding, breathing

Question 2

Anterior nares

Answer 2

inspiration and expiration

Question 3

Nasal

Answer 3

protection of nasal passage

Question 4

Frontal

Answer 4

protection of front of brain

Question 5

Parietal

Answer 5

protects brain

passage for blood vessel

Question 6

Interparietal

Answer 6

separate Parietals and supra occipitals

Question 7

Occipital condyle

Answer 7

articulate with facets of first vertebra (atlas)

Question 8

Foramen Magnum

Answer 8

pass through spinal cord

Question 9

Zygomatic process of maxilla

Answer 9

attachment of jaw muscle

Question 10

Zygomatic processof squamosal

Answer 10

attachment of jaw muscle

Question 11

Tympanic bulla

Answer 11

enclose the tympanic cavity

Question 12

External auditory meatus

Answer 12

external ear passage

Question 13

Jugal

Answer 13

partly protects eye

Question 14

Maxilla

Answer 14

form upper jaw, sockets for upper teeth

Question 15

Premaxilla

Answer 15

forms upper jaw, sockets for incisors

Question 16

vomer

Answer 16

forms posterior and inferior nasal septum dividing nasal cavities

Question 17

Palatine process of maxilla

Answer 17

form anterior part of hard palate

Question 18

Dentary

Answer 18

articulates with cranium by squamosal

Question 19

Diastema

Answer 19

gas between incisor and premolar

Question 20

Other part of dentary

Answer 20

attachment of Masseter muscle (jaw muscle)