Skeletal System and Bones

Question 1

What’s the name of the study of bones?

Answer 1

Osteology

Question 2

How many bones are in the body?

Answer 2

206

Question 3

What are Joints?

Answer 3

A connection between two or more bones

Question 4

What are the two types of Joints?

Answer 4

Moveable (elbows, knees, and hips) and immoveable (pelvis and skull)

Question 5

How many Moveable and Semi moveable joints do we have?

Answer 5

230

Question 6

What is Cartilage?

Answer 6

A tough, elastic substance similar to bone that cushions bones at the joints

Question 7

What are Ligaments?

Answer 7

Connects bone to bone

Question 8

What are Tendons?

Answer 8

Connects muscle to muscle or muscle to bone

Question 9

What are the five functions of the Skeletal System?

Answer 9

Gives shape and support to the body, protects vigorous internal structures and organs, serves as attachments for muscles and provides body movement, helps produce both red and white blood cells, stores most of the body’s calcium, sodium, phosphorus and magnesium

Question 10

How many bones of the skull are there?

Answer 10

22 bones, 8 cranial and 14 facial bones

Question 11

What is the Cranium?

Answer 11

Oval, bony case protecting the brain, formed by 8 bones

Question 12

What bones make up the Cranium?

Answer 12

Parietal (2), Occipital (1), Frontal (1), Sphenoid (1), Ethmoid (1), and Temporal (2)

Question 13

What is the Parietal bone?

Answer 13

2 bones forming the sides and top of the cranium

Question 14

What is the Occipital bone?

Answer 14

1 bone forming the back of the skull above the nape of the neck

Question 15

What is the Frontal bone?

Answer 15

1 bone that forms the forehead

Question 16

What is the Sphenoid bone?

Answer 16

1 bone that forms the sides of the eye socket, butterfly shaped bone

Question 17

What is the Ethmoid bone?

Answer 17

1 light spongy bone between the eye sockets that forms part of the nasal cavities

Question 18

What is the Temporal bone?

Answer 18

2 bones forming the sides of the head in ear region

Question 19

How many bones of the face are there?

Answer 19

14 including the maxilla (upper jaw) and mandible (lower jaw)

Question 20

What bones make up the face?

Answer 20

Frontal (1), Lacrimal (2), Nasal (2), Sphenoid (1), Zygomatic (2), Ethmoid (1), Vomer (1), Maxillary (2), and Mandible (1)

Question 21

What are the Nasal bones?

Answer 21

2 bones forming the bridge of the nose

Question 22

What are the Lacrimal bones?

Answer 22

2 bones at the front inside part of the eye socket

Question 23

What are the Zygomatic bones?

Answer 23

AKA malaria bones/cheek bones. 2 bones forming the prominence of cheeks

Question 24

What are the Maxillae bones?

Answer 24

2 bones forming the upper jaw

Question 25

What is the Mandible bone?

Answer 25

1 bone forming the lower jaw, largest and strongest bone of the faceW

Question 26

What are the bones of the Neck?

Answer 26

Cervical vertebrae and Hyoid

Question 27

What is the Cervical Vertebrae?

Answer 27

7 bones forming the upper neck

Question 28

What is the Hyoid bone?

Answer 28

U shaped bone at base of the tongue

Question 29

What are the bones of the Chest?

Answer 29

Scapula (2), Sternum (1), Thorax (1), Clavicle (2) and Ribs (12)

Question 30

What is the Thorax bone?

Answer 30

The chest consisting of the sternum, ribs, and thoracic vertebrae. Elastic bony cage protecting the heart, lungs and other internal organs

Question 31

What are the Ribs?

Answer 31

12 pairs of bones forming the wall of the Thorax

Question 32

What is the Scapula?

Answer 32

2 large triangular bones of the shoulder

Question 33

What is the Sternum?

Answer 33

AKA breastbone. Flat bone that forms the ventral support of the ribs

Question 34

What is the Clavicle?

Answer 34

AKA collarbone. Bone that joins the sternum and scapula

Question 35

What are the bones of the Arms and Hands?

Answer 35

Humerus, radius, ulna, carpus, metacarpus and phalanges

Question 36

What is the Humerus bone?

Answer 36

Largest bone of the arm, extending from the elbow to the shoulder

Question 37

What is the Ulna bone?

Answer 37

Larger bone of the forearm, attached to the wrist same side as the pinky

Question 38

What is the Radius bone?

Answer 38

The smaller bone in the forearm, same side as the thumb

Question 39

What is the Carpus bone?

Answer 39

AKA wrist bone. Flexible joint composed of 8 small, irregular bones (carpals) held by ligaments

Question 40

What is the Metacarpus bone?

Answer 40

AKA palm. Consists of 5 long, slender bones called metacarpal bones

Question 41

What is the Phalanges?

Answer 41

Bones in fingers. 3 in each finger and 2 in each thumb totaling 14 bones