The Body Works Quiz

What are the three main jobs of the bones?

• To allow your body to move, to protect your vital organs, to produce blood cells in bone marrow

• To help you see, to help you hear, to help you smell

• To help you breathe, to help you digest, to help you speak

• To help you taste, to help you touch, to help you balance

What are the two different kinds of bones?

• Axial and vertebral

• Cranial and appendicular

• Appendicular and vertebral

• Axial and appendicular

What is the purpose of joints in the body?

• To protect the bones from breaking

• To connect bones to help them move

• To connect muscles to bones

• To produce blood cells in bone marrow

What are the smallest bones in the human body?

• Femur

• Tibia

• Ossicles

• Humerus

What is a fracture?

• A type of joint

• A type of bone marrow

• A type of bone cell

• A break in a bone

How do bones fix themselves after a fracture?

• They create a cast to keep the pieces in place

• They produce more blood cells in bone marrow

• They fuse the two broken ends together with new bone cells

• They grow new skin over the break

What is the purpose of a cast when a bone is fractured?

• To keep the pieces of the bone in place so they grow back correctly

• To protect the bone from breaking again

• To make the bone stronger

• To help the bone produce more blood cells

What are the appendicular bones responsible for?

• Keeping the body upright

• Protecting the vital organs

• Helping the body move

• Producing blood cells in bone marrow