Bones and Joints Jeopardy Be sure the answer in a question!

Bones and Joints Jeopardy

• Be sure the answer in a question!

It is the strongest bone you have.

• What is the mandible?

They are 85% of your body weight.

• What are muscles?

The mineral that helps bones grow.

What is calcium?

They hold bones to bones

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What are ligaments?

It is a fixed joint.

• What is the cranium?

To protect bodily organs.

• What is one function of the skeletal system?

It is a feature that our feet and buildings have that provides

support.

• What is the arch?

It is the tough elastic tissue that our nose is made of.

What is cartilage?

Bones need them to move.

• What are muscles?

It is the place where two bones meet

• What is a joint?

It is the inside of a bone, often transplanted.

• What is bone marrow?

Ca

• What is the chemical abbreviation for calcium?

It is made of several small bones to allow movement.

• What is the vertebrae?

They hold muscles to bones.

• What are tendons?

.The clavicle

• What is the collarbone?

It is the feature that makes humans different than all other

animals.

• What is the opposable thumb?

The metatarsal

• What is the foot?

The carpal

• What is the wrist?

The approximate percentage of our body that the femur takes up.

• What is about 25% (25-35 accepted)

A lower arm bone.

• What is the ulna (or the radius)?

An inflammation of the joints

• What is arthritis?

A unique feature of human beings.

• What is the opposable thumb?

The joint at the shoulder

• What is a ball-and-socket joint?

Three types of joints

• What are (any three) fixed, hinge, ball-and-socket, pivot,

The shoulder bone

• What is the scapula?

Three classes of vertebrates

• What is (any three) mammals, reptiles, amphibians, birds, fish

It is the only movable joint in our head.

• What is the mandible (or jaw?)

The class of animal with a backbone

• What is a vertebrate?

The purpose of red blood cells

• What is to carry oxygen through our body?

A disease of the vertebrae that often affects older people.

•What is osteoporosis?

It is an example of an involuntary muscle.

• What is the heart?

How many movements your biceps have.

• What is one (contracting)?

206

• What is how many bones do you have?

You do this because its skull is not fused together yet.

• What is “why do you hold a baby by cradling its head?”

Humans have 26 of them.

• What is vertebrae

Two animals that have hollow bones.

• What is birds and humans?

A lower leg bone.

• What is fibula (or tibia?

Humans have 26 of them.

• What is “vertebrae”?

The biggest difference in the backbones of animals and humans?

• What is curved spine (in animals)?

What the thoracic case protects.

• What is heart and lungs?

The unusual shape of rib bones.

• What is curved?

They are fatter than fingers because we have to balance on

them.

• What are toes?

It’s where bones make blood.

• What is bone marrow?

They fight infection and are in your bones.

• What are white blood cells?

It is the advantage of hollow bones.

• What is “they are lighter”.