Cranium Bones

Question 1

Forms the forehead

Answer 1

Frontal

Question 2

Where sound enters and leads to the eardrum

Answer 2

External meatus

Question 3

What suture connects the two parietal bones

Answer 3

Sagittal

Question 4

What suture connects the frontal and parietal bone

Answer 4

Coronal

Question 5

Protects the brain

Answer 5

Parietal

Question 6

Connects the occipital and parietal

Answer 6

Lambdoid

Question 7

Protects the eyes and brain

Answer 7

Frontal

Question 8

Protects the brain and ears

Answer 8

Temporal

Question 9

Attachment side of neck muscles and ligaments

Answer 9

Styloid process

Question 10

Connects parietal and temporal

Answer 10

Squamous

Question 11

Forms the superior and lateral walls of cranium

Answer 11

Parietal

Question 12

Sharp needle like projection

Answer 12

Styloid process

Question 13

Butterfly shaped and spans width of skull

Answer 13

Sphenoid

Question 14

Provides protection to ear and eye

Answer 14

Zygomatic process

Question 15

Ear gets infected and can spread to brain

Answer 15

Mastaiditis

Question 16

Forms a snug enclosure for the pituitary gland

Answer 16

Sella Turcia

Question 17

Forms roof of the nasal cavity

Answer 17

Ethmoid bone

Question 18

Forms base and back walls of skull

Answer 18

Occipital

Question 19

Protects the brain

Answer 19

Occipital

Question 20

Full of air cavities- sinuses

Answer 20

Mastoid process

Question 21

Allows spinal cord to connect with the brain

Answer 21

Foramen magnum

Question 22

Large hole

Answer 22

Foramen magnum

Question 23

Rest on the first vertebrae of the spinal column

Answer 23

Occipital Condyles

Question 24

Helps with movement and rotation of head

Answer 24

Occipital condyles

Question 25

Joins with check bone

Answer 25

Zygomatic process

Question 26

Medial part of the sphenoid bone

Answer 26

Sells Turcia

Question 27

Attachment site for muscles of neck

Answer 27

Mastoid process

Question 28

Forms part of the floor of the cranial cavity

Answer 28

Sphenoid

Question 29

Allows fibers of cranial nerve V to pass to the chewing muscles of the lower jaw

Answer 29

Foramen Ovale

Question 30

Large Oval opening of sphenoid bone

Answer 30

Formen Ovale

Question 31

Very irregular shape

Answer 31

Ethmoid

Question 32

Sinuses are associated with it

Answer 32

Ethmoid bone

Question 33

Superior surface of the ethmoid

Answer 33

Crusts Galli

Question 34

Outermost covering of the brain attaches to this projection

Answer 34

Crista Galli

Question 35

Many small holes around it and on both sides

Answer 35

Crista Galli

Question 36

Allows nerve fibers carrying impulses from the olfactory receptors of the nose to reach the brain

Answer 36

Cribiform plates

Question 38

Small depression in sphenoid bone

Answer 38

Sella Turcia