Urrbrae Ag High School Skeletal System

Your skeleton

• supports & shapes the body

• works with muscles to help you move

• helps protect important organs

• makes blood

• all of the above

What protects the spinal cord?

• vertebrae

• body

• ribcage

The smallest bone in your body is inside your ear. Which is the biggest bone?

• a rib in your ribcage

• the thighbone in your leg

• the jawbone in your skull

• a wrist bone in your wrist

Which system is responsible for creating red blood cells?

• skeletal

• muscular

• respiratory

• nervous

The skeletal system is responsible for storing minerals?

• True

• False

The joint that moves in one direction, like a door

• ball and socket joint

• hinge joint

• pivot joint

• gliding joint

The joint in which bones slip over other bones, allowing free movement.

• ball and socket joint

• hinge joint

• pivot joint

• gliding joint

This is at the end of a bone, cushions/tough

• cartilage

• tendon

• ligament

This attaches bone to muscle.

• cartilage

• tendon

• ligament

This attaches bone to bone

• cartilage

• tendon

• ligament