Test-Skeletal System

Question 1

6. What bone is at the bottom of the hip that makes a v-shape?

Answer 1

The Ischium

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Question 2

11. What are the bone at the base of the hands, the wrist.

Answer 2

The carpals.

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Question 3

12. What are the bones at the base or ankle of the foot?

Answer 3

The tarsals.

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Question 4

14. What bone of the arm is on facing the outsider of the body?

Answer 4

The radius.

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Question 5

28. What bone makes up the upper jaw?

Answer 5

The maxilla.

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Question 6

46. What do ligaments do?

Answer 6

Attach bones to other bones.

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Question 7

48. As an adult your skeleton is made up of _________ bones than when you were born?

Answer 7

A smaller number of bones.

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Question 8

45. The spine is made up of little ring shaped bones. What is the order from top to bottom for the number of bones in the different sections of the vertebral column?

Answer 8

7, 12, 5, 1, 1

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