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WorksheetsSkeletal System 5th Grade
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 9mins
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Class
Date
1.
Where can you find the periosteum?
a)
On the outermost portion of your bones
b)
In the innermost portion of your bones
c)
Between the layers of spongy bone
d)
In the hollows of your bones
2.
What fills the hollow of most bones?
a)
Bone blood
b)
Bone marrow
c)
Spongy bone
d)
Compact bone
3.
What is the main function of bone marrow?
a)
Supporting internal organs
b)
Keeping the spine straight
c)
Storing minerals
d)
Producing blood cells
4.
What can you infer from the fact that babies have more bones than adults?
a)
Most adults suffer from bone loss
b)
Teenagers also have more bones than adults
c)
Babies shed some of their bones as they grow
d)
Some of babies' bones fuse together as they grow
5.
The spine is made up of little ring-shaped bones called:
a)
Vertebrates
b)
Verdigris
c)
Vertigo
d)
Vertebrae
6.
What is the name for a broken bone?
a)
periosteum
b)
compound
c)
fraction
d)
fracture
7.
Which is not a job of your skeletal system?
a)
to support
b)
to store calcium
c)
to store glucose
d)
to protect
8.
Where would you find the femur, patella, tibia, and fibula?
a)
in the feet
b)
in the leg
c)
in the arm
d)
in the back
9.
Where would you find the metatarsals and phalanges?
a)
in the neck
b)
in the leg
c)
in the feet
d)
in the hands
10.
What is the biggest and heaviest bone in your body?
a)
femur
b)
skull
c)
patella
d)
ulna
11.
Why do adults have fewer bones than young children do?
a)
Bones fuse or grow together as people grow up.
b)
Adults are bigger so they don't need as many
bones.
c)
People lose bones as they grow, just as they
lose baby teeth.
d)
Most people have mutated bone cells.
12.
Bones in your fingers are called the ______.
a)
clavicle
b)
phalanges
c)
humerus
d)
radius
13.
Another name for the collar bone is the ______.
a)
clavicle
b)
humerus
c)
scapula
d)
sternum
14.
The upper arm bone is called the ______.
a)
clavicle
b)
phalanges
c)
humerus
d)
fibula
15.
What is the name for a broken bone?
a)
compound
b)
fracture
c)
fraction
d)
periosteum
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