Anatomy Axial and Appendicular Skeleton

What is the name of the long bone in the top part of the leg?

• Patella

• Femur

• Fibula

• Tibia

Consists of bones of the upper and lower limbs and the bones that anchor the limbs to the axial skeleton

• axial skeleton

• thoracic vertebrae

• appendicular skeleton

• carpals

What bone is shown in red?

• femur

• fibula

• patella

• tibia

What bone is shown in red?

• clavicle

• humerus

• radius

• ulna

The appendicular skeleton is made up of which structures? 

• The arms, legs and feet

• The upper and lower limbs, pelvic girdle and pectoral girdle

• The pelvic and pectoral girdle only

• The arms, legs, vertebral column,  and the pectoral girdle. 

The true wrist or carpus consists of:

• a group of 8 short bones united by ligaments

• the phalanges

• the styloid processes of the radius and the ulna

• the metacarpals

What bone is shown in red?

• clavicle

• humerus

• scapula

• ulna

What bone is shown in red?

• clavicle

• humerus

• scapula

• ulna

What bones are shown in red?

• carpals

• metacarpals

• metatarsals

• tarsals

axial skeleton

• name given to the pieces of the skeleton which are not part of the main trunk of the body

• the skeleton that makes up the main trunk of the body

• soft and bendy tissue which covers the ends of bone and provides cushioning between bones

• bones which protect organs and provide places for strong muscles to attach