The Skeletal System

Question 1

How many bones and teeth are in the human skeleton?

Answer 1

206 bones and 32 teeth

Question 2

What are the bands of dense and fibrous connective tissue that are key to the function of joints?

Answer 2

Ligaments

Question 3

What is more flexible than bone but stiffer than muscle.

Answer 3

Cartilage

Question 4

What group of skeleton facilitates movements?

Answer 4

Appendicular Skeleton

Question 5

What are the five classifications of bones?

Answer 5

Long Bones, Flat Bones, Sesamoid Bones, Short Bones, and Irregular Shaped Bones.

Question 6

What class of bone is the femur?

Answer 6

Long Bone

Question 7

What class of bone is the frontal bone?

Answer 7

Flat Bone

Question 8

What class of bone is the kneecap?

Answer 8

Sesamoid Bone

Question 9

What class of bone are the carpals and tarsals?

Answer 9

Short Bones

Question 10

What class of bone is the vertebrae?

Answer 10

Irregular Shaped Bones

Question 11

What are the two divisions of the skull?

Answer 11

Cranial Bones and Facial Skeleton

Question 12

What are the eight cranial bones?

Answer 12

Occipital Bone, Left and Right Parietal Bone, Left and Right Temporal Bone, Frontal Bone, and Ethmoid.

Question 13

What are the large regions of fibrous membranes in fetuses and newborn infants?

Answer 13

Fontanelles

Question 14

What develops as fontanelles close?

Answer 14

Cranial Sutures

Question 15

What kind of suture is located between the occipital and parietal bones?

Answer 15

Lambdoid Suture

Question 16

What kind of suture is located between the frontal and parietal bones?

Answer 16

Coronal Suture

Question 17

What kind of suture is located between the two parietal bones?

Answer 17

Sagittal Suture

Question 18

What kind of suture is located between the temporal and parietal bones?

Answer 18

Squamous Suture

Question 19

What are the five regions of the vertebral column?

Answer 19

Cervical, Thoracic, Lumbar, Sacral, and Coccygeal

Question 20

What are the three divisions of the sternum?

Answer 20

Manubrium, Body of the Sternum, and Xiphoid Process

Question 21

How many pair of ribs are true ribs?

Answer 21

Seven

Question 22

How many pair of ribs are false ribs?

Answer 22

Five

Question 23

What holds the skeleton together and support its movement?

Answer 23

Joints

Question 24

What joints have thick connective tissue between them?

Answer 24

Fibrous Joints

Question 25

What joints unite bones with cartilage?

Answer 25

Cartilaginous Joints

Question 26

What joints are characterized by the presence of a capsule between the two joined bones?

Answer 26

Synovial Joints

Question 27

What consists the shoulder girdle?

Answer 27

Scapulae and Clavicles

Question 28

What is the arm bone called?

Answer 28

Humerus

Question 29

What are the two forearm bones?

Answer 29

Radius and Ulna

Question 30

What is the wrist bone called?

Answer 30

Carpal

Question 31

What are the two hand bones?

Answer 31

Metacarpals and Phalanges

Question 32

What is the ring of bones attached to the vertebral column that connects the bones of the lower limbs to the axial skeleton?

Answer 32

Pelvic Girdle

Question 33

What is the large, flattened, and irregularly shaped fusion of three bones?

Answer 33

Hip Bone

Question 34

What are the three divisions of the hip bone?

Answer 34

Ilium, Ischium, and Pubis

Question 35

What is the thigh bone called?

Answer 35

Femur

Question 36

What are the two leg bones?

Answer 36

Tibia and Fibula

Question 37

What are the three foot bones?

Answer 37

Tarsus, Metatarsals, and Phalanges