Year 10 - Regions of Vertebral Column

Question 1

What is the top section of Vertebral Column?

Answer 1

Cervical Vertebrae (7)

Question 2

What does the Cervical Vertebrae do?

Answer 2

It is in the neck, movement of the head in a number of directions.

Question 3

What is the second part of the Vertebral Column?

Answer 3

Thoracic Vertebrae

Question 4

What does the Thoracis Vertebrae do? Where is it?

Answer 4

Upper body, Rotation of the upper body, sporting skills.

Question 5

What is the third part of the Vertebral Column?

Answer 5

Lumbar Vertebrae (5)

Question 6

What/Where is the Lumbar Vertebrae

Answer 6

Lower back, it has the largest vertebrae out of all of them. The gravity is also pushing down on it so it has to be stronger.

Question 7

What are the bottom two parts of the Vertebral Column

Answer 7

Sacrum and Coccyx (note: they are fused together, 5 and 4 in sizes of vertebrae)

Question 8

What/Where is the Sacrum

Answer 8

Forms the back of the pelvis, weight bearing

Question 9

What/Where is the coccyx

Answer 9

At the end of the Vertebral Column

Question 10

What are the numbers for the vertebrae

Answer 10

7 (Cervical Vertebrae), 12 (Thoracis Vertebrae), 5 (Lumbar Vertebrae), 5 (Sacrum), 4 (Coccyx)