What is it's purpose? | True or false | Vocabulary | What is the...? |
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The skeletal system works as a support structure for your body. It gives the body its shape, allows movement, makes blood cells, provides protection for organs and stores minerals
What is the purpose of the skeletal system?
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True
The vertebrae is located in the axial skeleton
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Joints
Helps with movement of bones
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Consists of head, thorax, and vertebral column. It has 80 bones
What is axial skeleton? What does it consist of?
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Supports the shoulder and give the shoulder the ability for full capacity
What is the purpose of the clavicle?
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False
There are 30 ribs in a humans body
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Hold bone to bone
Ligaments
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shoulder girdle, the upper limbs, the pelvic girdle, and the lower limbs. It has 126 bones
What is the appendicular skeleton? What does it consist of?
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protects the organs in the thoracic cavity, assists in respiration, and provides support for the upper extremities.
What is the purpose of your ribs?
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True
There are 126 bones in the appendicular skeleton
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Tendons
Holds muscle to bone
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Ulna and radius
What are the bones that make up the forearm?
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acts as a protective shield, enclosing the nerves of the lower back
What is the purpose of your sacrum?
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False
Your metacarpals are the tips of your fingers
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Chin
Mandible
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Calcaneus, talus, cuneiform bones, metatarsals and phalanges
What are 3 bones that make up the foot
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manufactures bone marrow stem cells and other substances, which in turn produce blood cells
What is the purpose of bone marrow?
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False
New born babies have less bones in the body than a full grown human because the Bones of the baby hasn’t developed yet
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The epiphyseal plate is a plate of hyaline cartilage found in children and adolescents, located in the metaphysis at the ends of each long bone. The epiphyseal plates permit growth and lengthening of the bone
Epiphyseal line
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scaphoid, lunate, triquetrum, pisiform, trapezium, trapezoid, capitate, hamate
What are 3 bones that make up the metacarpals
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