Animal Skeletal System Review

What is the function of a tendon?

• Connect bones to bones

• Connect muscles to bones

• Connect muscles to ligaments

• Bind the cells in compact bone closer together

The hollow space in the middle of long bones is called

• Medullary Cavity

• Periosteum

Long bones are formed through

• membranous bone formation

• endochondral bone formation

Which of the following statement is INCORRECT?

• Bone is where most blood cells are made.

• Bone serves as a storehouse for various minerals

• Bone is a dry and non-living supporting structure.

• Bone protects and supports the body and its organs

What is the skeletal system?

• All the bones in the body

• All the muscles and tendons

• All the body's organs, both soft and hard tissue

• All the bones in the body and the tissues that connect them

Which function of the skeletal system would be especially important if you were in a car accident?

• Storage of minerals

• Protection of organs

• Facilitation of movement

• Fat storage

Without red marrow, bones would not be able to ________.

• store phosphate

• store calcium

• make blood cells

• move joints

What is found at the end of long bones to reduce friction and absorb shock?

• red marrow

• yellow marrow

• cartilage

• spongy bone

Most of the bones of the arms and hands are long bones; however, the bones in the wrist are categorized as ________.

• flat bones

• short bones

• sesamoid bones

• irregular bones

Bones that surround the spinal cord are classified as ________ bones.

• irregular

• sesamoid

• flat

• short