axial skeleton and appendicular skeleton - answers✔✔What are the two major divisions of the skeletal
system?
Axial - answers✔✔The skull, spine, sternum, and ribs are part of what division of the skeletal system?
Appendicular - answers✔✔The girdles, arms, and legs are part of what division of the skeletal system?
Ear - answers✔✔The tympanic cavity is located in the...
Tympanic Cavity - answers✔✔What part of the skull contains the ossicles
Paranasal Sinuses - answers✔✔These bones of the skull; frontal, ethmoidal, sphenoidal, and maxillary
are called the...
Vertebral Column - answers✔✔Another name for the spine is...
5 regions - answers✔✔The vertebral column consists of how many regions?
1. Cervical Vertebrae 2. Thoracic Vertebrae, 3. Lumbar Vertebrae, 4. Sacrum, 5. Coccyx - answers✔✔The
5 regions of the spine are...
7 - answers✔✔The Cervical Vertebrae consists of how many bones?
12 - answers✔✔The Thoracic Vertebrae consists of how many bones?
5 - answers✔✔The Lumbar Vertebrae consists of how many bones?
,1 sacrum in the vertebral column ; consists of 5 bones - answers✔✔The Sacrum consists of how many
bones?
1 coccyx in the vertebral column ; consists of 4 bones. - answers✔✔The Coccyx consists of how many
bones?
Intervertebral discs - answers✔✔The special cartilage discs which helps protect each vertebrae are
called...
12 - answers✔✔How many pairs of ribs are there
costal cartilage - answers✔✔Ribs are connected to sternum by
Thoracic - answers✔✔The ribs are connected to what part of the vertebral column?
1. Manubrium 2. Body 3. Sternomanubrial joint 4. Xiphoid process - answers✔✔What are the four
regions of the sternum?
true ribs - answers✔✔Ribs 1-7 are called
false ribs - answers✔✔Ribs 8-10 are called
floating ribs - answers✔✔Ribs 11 and 12 are called
Pectoral and Pelvic - answers✔✔What are the two Girdles of the appendicular skeleton that are
responsible for attachment of the arms and legs?
clavicle and scapula - answers✔✔Which bones make up the pectoral girdle?
,Vertebral column - answers✔✔Is the sacrum part of the pelvic girdle or the vertebral column?
ilium, ischium, pubis - answers✔✔What bones make up the pelvic girdle?
In the appendicular skeleton / arms and legs - answers✔✔Where do you find long bones?
Osseous tissue - answers✔✔Bone is a form of connective tissue, specifically ____________________
tissue ?
Ossification - answers✔✔The process of bone formations is called
1. Calcium 2. Phosphate 3. Collagen - answers✔✔The matrix of osseous tissue is made up of 3 main
things:
Bone - answers✔✔Osteo means?
osteocytes - answers✔✔What matures bone cells?
osteoblasts - answers✔✔What build up bone?
osteoclasts - answers✔✔What breaks down bone?
Inside the bones - answers✔✔Where do we find bone marrow
red blood cells - answers✔✔Red bone marrow makes
Epiphysis - answers✔✔Red bone marrow in the ____________________ part of the bone.
Spongy bone - answers✔✔The epiphysis (part of the long bone) is protected by...
, adipose tissue (fat) - answers✔✔Yellow bone marrow stores...
Diaphysis - answers✔✔Yellow bone marrow is found in the _______________________ part of the
bone
Compact bone - answers✔✔Diaphysis (part of long bone) is protected by...
1. Ball-and-socket joints 2. Hing joints - answers✔✔Two main types of freely movable joints
shoulder and hip - answers✔✔Examples of ball-and-socket joints are
elbow and knee - answers✔✔Examples of hinge joints are
sutures - answers✔✔The immovable joints of the skull are called
Joints - answers✔✔_______________ are where two bones come together
Immovable and freely movable - answers✔✔Joints can be classified by
Synovial fluid - answers✔✔This fluid lubricates the bones in the joints, decreasing friction.
Fontanelles - answers✔✔What did the sutures in the skull used to be
Red Bone Marrow - answers✔✔What tissue is found filling the epiphysis of long bones?
Eustachian Tube - answers✔✔What is the tube called that connects our throat to the middle ear?