The Skeletal System

Question 1

How many bones are in the human skeleton?

Answer 1

206

Question 2

Ligaments connect what?

Answer 2

Bone to bone

Question 3

Cartilage covers what?

Answer 3

End of bones

Question 4

Tendons attach what?

Answer 4

Muscle to bone

Question 5

What are the two sections of the skeletal system?

Answer 5

Appendicular

Axial

Question 6

Give three functions of the skeletal system

Answer 6

Shape and support
Attachment 
Locomotion
Production
Protection
Storage

Question 7

How many natural curves does the spine have? Name them

Answer 7

4
Cervical 
Thoracic 
Lumber
Sacral (fused)

Question 8

How many bones in the spine?

Answer 8

33

Question 9

How many bones in the cervical curve?

Answer 9

7

Question 10

How many bones in the thoracic curve?

Answer 10

12

Question 11

How many bones in the lumber curve?

Answer 11

5

Question 12

How many bones in the sacral curve?

Answer 12

5

Question 13

Name the 5 different types of bone.

Answer 13

Long
Short
Flat
Irregular
Sesamoid

Question 14

Example of a long bone

Answer 14

Femur, tibia , fibula , phalanges

Question 15

Example of short bone

Answer 15

Carpals, tarsals

Question 16

Example of flat bone?

Answer 16

Scapula, ilium, ischium, pubis

Question 17

Example of irregular bone

Answer 17

Vertebrae, sacrum , coccyx

Question 18

Example of sesamoid bone

Answer 18

Patella

Question 19

Give 5 factors that can affect bone growth.

Answer 19

Age 
Gender 
Diet
Exercise 
Hormones 
Medication
Sunlight 
Calcium
Vitamin D

Question 20

What are osteoblasts?

Answer 20

Bone building cells

Question 21

What are osteoclasts?

Answer 21

Bone clearing cells

Question 22

What is ossification?

Answer 22

The process of bone growth

Question 23

What is endochondral ossification?

Answer 23

Formation of cartilage

Question 24

What is intermembranous ossification?

Answer 24

Formation of bone

Question 25

What is osteoporosis?

Answer 25

Disease caused by loss of bone mass