Understanding Your Skeleton

The video explores the fascinating world of skeletons, highlighting their crucial roles in supporting the body, enabling movement, and protecting vital organs. It explains the differences in bone count from birth to adulthood due to bone fusion, and introduces the largest and smallest bones in the body. The video also reveals that bones are living structures that produce blood and continue to grow until around age 25. The importance of the skeleton is emphasized, along with an invitation for viewers to engage with questions about bones.

What is one of the main functions of the skeleton?

• To digest food

• To produce energy

• To hold the body up

• To store fat

How do muscles and bones work together?

• Muscles relax and contract to move bones

• Bones move on their own

• Bones contract to move muscles

• Muscles push bones to move

Which bone is the strongest and longest in the human body?

• Radius

• Tibia

• Humerus

• Femur

Where is the smallest bone in the human body located?

• In the foot

• In the hand

• In the ear

• In the nose

How many bones does a newborn baby have?

• 206

• 250

• 300

• 150

What happens to some bones as a person grows from a baby to an adult?

• They shrink

• They multiply

• They fuse together

• They disappear

How many bones are in the adult human skull?

• 22 fused bones

• 21 fused bones and 1 separate bone

• 23 fused bones

• 20 fused bones and 2 separate bones

What is a unique feature of bones that makes them different from museum skeletons?

• They are made of plastic

• They are alive

• They are hollow

• They are invisible

What important function do bones perform related to blood?

• They cool blood

• They produce blood

• They store blood

• They filter blood

Until what age do human bones continue to grow?

• 18 years

• 30 years

• 21 years

• 25 years