General Characteristics

Question 1

What is the number of vertebrae in a typical adolescent?

Answer 1

33 segments

Question 2

What is the number of vertebrae in a typical adult?

Answer 2

26 segments

Question 3

What is the number of vertebrae in a typical spine?

Answer 3

24

Question 4

How many segments unite to form the sacrum?

Answer 4

5

Question 5

How many segments from the typical coccyx?

Answer 5

4

Question 6

which mammals have less than seven cervical vertebrae?

Answer 6

2 toed sloth, manatee

Question 7

which mammals have more than seven cervical vertebrae?

Answer 7

3-toed sloth and ant bear

Question 8

What does the term cervical mean?

Answer 8

region of the neck

Question 9

What does the term thoracic refer to?

Answer 9

breast plate or chest; armor bearing region of the torso

Question 10

What does the term lumbar mean?

Answer 10

the loin, the region between the rib and hip

Question 11

What does the term sacrum refer to?

Answer 11

the holy bone or holy region

Question 12

what does the coccyx refer to?

Answer 12

Cuckoo birds bill or cuckoo birds beak