Test - Skeletal System Flashcards
1
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- What is the set of irregularly shaped bones in the wrist called?
A
Carpals
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2
Q
- What is the curved bone that forms the base of each half of the pelvis?
A
Ischium
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3
Q
- What are the group of five bomes that are between the phalanges of the toes and the tarsal bones?
A
Metatarsals
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4
Q
- What is the thicker and shorter bone in the human forearm?
A
Radius
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5
Q
- What kind of bone is the bone that is right above the occipital bone in the skull?
A
Flat
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6
Q
- What is the bone that forms the upper jaw?
A
Maxilla
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7
Q
- What is the compund bone that forms the base of the cranium?
A
Sphenoid
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8
Q
- What is the bone that covers the enitire forhead and little bit of the eye socket?
A
Frontal
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9
Q
- What do ligaments do?
A
Attach bones to other bones
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10
Q
- What are the little black dots in the center of the osteons?
A
Haversian canals
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11
Q
- What is most of a newborn baby’s skeleton made of?
A
Cartilage
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12
Q
- # 1, which is at the very top of the entire vertebral column, is what?
A
C1, cervical vertebrae, & the atlas
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13
Q
- # 11, which is between the throacic vertebrae and the sacrum, is called what?
A
Lumbar vertebrae
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14
Q
- What bone is between the talus bone and the metatarsal bone?
A
The tarsal, calcaneus, and gliding joint bone
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15
Q
- What advantage do we gain from the fact that bones are hollow?
A
We can move around easily
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16
Q
- What is the vertebra that allows the head to turn or pivot?
A
Axis
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17
Q
- As an adult, your skeleton is made of _________ bones than when you were born.
A
A small number of
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18
Q
- What is the strong connective tissue that holds movable joints together?
A
Ligament
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19
Q
- What might happen if ypur spine was perfectly straight?
A
Walking would be extremely uncomfortable
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20
Q
- What kind of motion is possible with a hinge joint?
A
Backward or foward
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21
Q
- Which organ system makes blood cells?
A
Skeletal system
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22
Q
- By eating dairy products, you are helping to maintain healty bones because dairy products__________.
A
Are a good source of calcium.
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23
Q
- What bone is made up four fused vertebra?
A
Coccyx
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24
Q
- What bones makeup the palm of the hand?
A
Metacarpals
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67. What apart of the head does the frontal bone makeup?
Forehead
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68. What is the sternum?
Breast bone
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71. What are the ribs attached T11-T12 called?
Floating
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73. Which type of joint is the knee?
Hinge
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74. Name the type of joint that provide the greatest range of movement.
Which joint above is an example of it?
What bones make up this type of joint in the picture above? (Joint A, Joint B, Joint C, Joint D)
Ball and socket, c, scapula and the humerus
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76. Which joint is a pivot joint?
| What are the names of the bones that make the joint?
B, axis and atlas or C1 and C2
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77. Joint B has two bones separated by a line. What does the line represent?
What bones are separated by the line?
Which joints are movable? (knee joint, shoulder joint, neck vertebrae 1 & 2, skull joint)
Immoveable joint, parietal and frontal
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79. Explain why some people say we have 33 vertebrae and some say we have 26 vertebrae. How can both be right?
Bones fuse over time, and babies have more. The cartilage babies have also eventually turns into bone.
