Bones Of The Human Body

Question 1

Hw many bones is the human skeleton made up of?

Answer 1

206

Question 2

What are the two sections the human skeleton can be divided into?

Answer 2

Axial and appendicular skeletons

Question 3

What is the axial skeleton?

Answer 3

The main support for the body and includes the skull, vertebral column and rib cage

Question 4

What is the appendicular skeleton?

Answer 4

The limb bones and their ‘girdles’, which connect onto the axial skeleton

Question 5

How many bones are in the vertebral column?

Answer 5

33 - 24 are infused or seperate and 9 are fused together to make up the sacrum and coccyx

Question 6

How many cervical vertebrae are there?

Answer 6

7 unfused

Question 7

How many thoracic vertebrae are there?

Answer 7

12 unfused

Question 8

How many lumbar vertebrae are there?

Answer 8

5 unfused

Question 9

How many sacrum vertebrae are there?

Answer 9

5 fused sacral vertebrae

Question 10

How many coccyx vertebrae are there?

Answer 10

4 fused vertebrae

Question 11

What are short bones?

Answer 11

Roughly cubical bones, with the same width and length

Question 12

What are long bones?

Answer 12

Bones that are longer than wide, and they have a hollow shaft containing marrow

Question 13

What are sesamoid bones?

Answer 13

Small bones developed in tendons around some joints

Question 14

What are flat bones?

Answer 14

Flat area for muscle attachment and usually enclose cavities for protecting organs

Question 15

What are irregular bones?

Answer 15

Bones with no regular shape characteristics

Question 16

Example of a short bone

Answer 16

Carpals

Question 17

Example of a long bone

Answer 17

Femur, tibia, fibula, humerus

Question 18

Sesamoid bone example

Answer 18

Patella

Question 19

Flat bone eample

Answer 19

Scapula

Question 20

Irregular bone example

Answer 20

Vertebrae