Human Body Joints

What type of joint is located in your elbow?

• Hinge
• Gliding
• Ball and Socket

What type of joint is located in your vertebrae?

• Gliding
• Hinge
• Ball and Socket

What type of joint is located in your shoulder?

• Hinge
• Gliding
• Ball and Socket

What special joint is located in your thumb?

• Horse
• Cattle
• Saddle
• Gallop

This means that you can bend at joints:

• Joints
• Cartilage
• Articulated
• Flexible

This is connected by a ball and socket joint

• Elbow
• Ankle
• Thumb
• Hip/Pelvis

This is connected by a hinge joint

• Knee
• Vertebrae
• Skull

• Kneecap

Your patella or kneecap is located on top of a _____________ joint.

• Ball and Socket
• Hinge
• Gliding
• Swing

This is connected by a gliding joint

• ankle
• pelvis
• jaw
• swing

Within joints you can find this:

• Cartilage
• Bone
• Hair
• Paper