AEA CORE EXAM SET 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Skeletal System - ✔✔all bones, including cartilage and joints
✔✔Muscular - ✔✔All muscles including ligaments and tendons
✔✔Digestive - ✔✔digestive tract, including liver, gallbladder, and pancreas
✔✔Lateral - ✔✔Away from the midline of the body
✔✔supine - ✔✔face up
✔✔prone - ✔✔face down
✔✔Long bones - ✔✔1)longer than they are wide; found in appendages
2 Contain a diaphysis (shaft), and two ends the epophysis
i.e. femur, tibia, fibula, radius, ulna, and humerus
✔✔Short bones - ✔✔1) = W and L, cuboidal
i.e. wrist and ankle
✔✔Flat bones - ✔✔1) Thin and generally flat
2) Protection and surface area for muscles to attach
i.e. cranial bones and scapula
✔✔Irregular Bones - ✔✔1) Complex shapes
i.e. vertebrae
✔✔Periosteum - ✔✔1) Dense,white,fibrous sheath that covers the surface of the bone
2) Where the muscles and tendons attach
✔✔Medullary Cavity - ✔✔Cavity within the shaft of the long bones filled with yellow fatty
bone marrow
✔✔Endosteum - ✔✔Layer of cells that line the Medullary Cavity
✔✔Ossification - ✔✔Bone formation
✔✔Epiphyseal Plates - ✔✔cartilaginous growth plates located at either end of bones
*common in long bones
, ✔✔Axial skeleton - ✔✔Forms the main trunk of the body and is composed of the skull,
spinal column, ribs, & sternum; division of the skeleton that protects the major organs of
the nervous, respiratory, & circulatory system
✔✔Appendicular Skeleton - ✔✔Bones associated with appendages
✔✔Articulation (joint) - ✔✔point of contact between two or more bones
✔✔Ligaments - ✔✔Dense, regular, connective tissue that attach bone to bone at
moveable joints and help to protect the joint from dislocation
✔✔Cervical spine - ✔✔neck, 7 vertebrae
✔✔thoracic spine - ✔✔behind rib cage, 12 midsize vertebrae
✔✔Lumbar spine - ✔✔Lower back, 5 large vertebrae
✔✔Sacrum - ✔✔5 fused
✔✔Coccyx (tailbone) - ✔✔4 fused into one or two bones
✔✔Visceral Muscle - ✔✔Muscle that lines the walls of internal organs; smooth or
involuntary muscle.
✔✔What are the functions of the muscular system? - ✔✔1) assist movement
2) maintain posture
3) create heat
✔✔Tendons - ✔✔1) Connect muscle to bone
2) connects fascia to the periosteum
✔✔Origin - ✔✔Attachment of a muscle that remains relatively fixed during muscular
contraction
✔✔Insertion - ✔✔Attachment that moves toward the origin during muscle contraction.
Usually the distal point and most movable part.
✔✔agonist - ✔✔(prime mover) - cause primary movement when it contracts
✔✔antagonist - ✔✔a muscle that relaxes while another contracts
✔✔Sternocleidomastoid - ✔✔Location: Front of the neck
Attaches: Sternum and clavice
Ends: Jaw area
SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Skeletal System - ✔✔all bones, including cartilage and joints
✔✔Muscular - ✔✔All muscles including ligaments and tendons
✔✔Digestive - ✔✔digestive tract, including liver, gallbladder, and pancreas
✔✔Lateral - ✔✔Away from the midline of the body
✔✔supine - ✔✔face up
✔✔prone - ✔✔face down
✔✔Long bones - ✔✔1)longer than they are wide; found in appendages
2 Contain a diaphysis (shaft), and two ends the epophysis
i.e. femur, tibia, fibula, radius, ulna, and humerus
✔✔Short bones - ✔✔1) = W and L, cuboidal
i.e. wrist and ankle
✔✔Flat bones - ✔✔1) Thin and generally flat
2) Protection and surface area for muscles to attach
i.e. cranial bones and scapula
✔✔Irregular Bones - ✔✔1) Complex shapes
i.e. vertebrae
✔✔Periosteum - ✔✔1) Dense,white,fibrous sheath that covers the surface of the bone
2) Where the muscles and tendons attach
✔✔Medullary Cavity - ✔✔Cavity within the shaft of the long bones filled with yellow fatty
bone marrow
✔✔Endosteum - ✔✔Layer of cells that line the Medullary Cavity
✔✔Ossification - ✔✔Bone formation
✔✔Epiphyseal Plates - ✔✔cartilaginous growth plates located at either end of bones
*common in long bones
, ✔✔Axial skeleton - ✔✔Forms the main trunk of the body and is composed of the skull,
spinal column, ribs, & sternum; division of the skeleton that protects the major organs of
the nervous, respiratory, & circulatory system
✔✔Appendicular Skeleton - ✔✔Bones associated with appendages
✔✔Articulation (joint) - ✔✔point of contact between two or more bones
✔✔Ligaments - ✔✔Dense, regular, connective tissue that attach bone to bone at
moveable joints and help to protect the joint from dislocation
✔✔Cervical spine - ✔✔neck, 7 vertebrae
✔✔thoracic spine - ✔✔behind rib cage, 12 midsize vertebrae
✔✔Lumbar spine - ✔✔Lower back, 5 large vertebrae
✔✔Sacrum - ✔✔5 fused
✔✔Coccyx (tailbone) - ✔✔4 fused into one or two bones
✔✔Visceral Muscle - ✔✔Muscle that lines the walls of internal organs; smooth or
involuntary muscle.
✔✔What are the functions of the muscular system? - ✔✔1) assist movement
2) maintain posture
3) create heat
✔✔Tendons - ✔✔1) Connect muscle to bone
2) connects fascia to the periosteum
✔✔Origin - ✔✔Attachment of a muscle that remains relatively fixed during muscular
contraction
✔✔Insertion - ✔✔Attachment that moves toward the origin during muscle contraction.
Usually the distal point and most movable part.
✔✔agonist - ✔✔(prime mover) - cause primary movement when it contracts
✔✔antagonist - ✔✔a muscle that relaxes while another contracts
✔✔Sternocleidomastoid - ✔✔Location: Front of the neck
Attaches: Sternum and clavice
Ends: Jaw area
