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WorksheetsForensic Anthropology
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
What Can't skeletons tell us?
Gender
Height
Race
Health
Intelligence
The skull, vertebral column and rib cage compose the
appendicular skeleton
skull sutures
bone locations
axial skeleton
The ilium, pubis and ishium make the
upper arm
pelvic bone
skull
lower leg
The bone of the thigh
femur
humerus
radius
tibia
The shoulder blade
clavicle
ulna
carpals
scapula
Bones move because muscles attach to bones by
skin
tendons
ligaments
blood vessels
If a skull has square eye sockets, a square mandible, a large upper brow ridge and a large mastoid bone protrusion, it is
male
female
A wider pelvic arch, wider pelvic brim and flared ilium belong to a
female
male
The closure of sutures an indicate an older age. Where are sutures found?
femur
tibia
skull
ribs
An epiphysis line is also know as a
fracture
tendon
spongy bone
growth plate
Measuring the femur, tibia, radius or humerus can identify
a person's height
type of disease
if it is human
bond damage history
The shape of eye orbits, nasal spine and nasal index help identify
height
race
calcium content
the crime
More developed bone on one side may indicate
how you lived
how she was murdered
handedness
gender
How is a blunt force fracture to bone different than sharp objects.
it is more focused
it is more widespread
it makes a round hole
it is smooth
An injury to bone with evidence of healing
unimortem
perimortem
post mortem
antemortem
Bone injury with sharp, clean edges and not healing; may even show the shape of the weapon
perimortem
antimortem
Polimortem
blunt mortem
When environmental conditions such as compression, sun, heat and moisture can cause this damage to bone.
perimortem
antemortem
postmortem
aftermortem
Which of the following teeth evidence will not help age an individual
deciduous teeth
fillings in teeth
wisdom teeth
worn teeth
