Study Guide: I Dig Bones, and Rock the Joints
Name: _________ Block: ___
Answer the following questions on a separate sheet of paper
1. Why does your skeleton have to be flexible?
2. How does your skeleton help you move?
3. How do the living cells of the bones get food?
4. What does the periosteum do for bone?
5. How are bone and cartilage different from one another?
6. What is the job of bone marrow?
7. What would happen if a ligament is stretched too far?
8. How are bones both living and non-living?
9. What are the major functions of the skeleton?
10. How many bones are there in the human skeleton?
11. How does the blood supply get to the bones?
12. What do ligaments do and how are they related to joints?
13. Connective tissue that connects muscles to bones
14. The hardest most tightly packed layer of bone in the body. It gives the body most of its structural support.
15. The honeycomb of bone at each end of a long bone that gives a bone its springiness.
Label each of the major bones below. On the line to the bone give the technical name.
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Boning Up on the Skeleton
Bone: Common Name
Skull
Breastbone
Collarbone
Upper arm bone
Forearm (thumb side)
Forearm (pinky side
Shoulder blade
Spine (individual bones)
Thigh
Shinbone
Kneecap
Hips
Bone: Technical Name
Illustration
Boning Up
Across
3. Not a platypus, the outer layer of the bone.
4. You don't want to "wrist" getting a tunnel in these.
6. Thumb side elbow twisting bone.
9. Tell a lie from the lower leg.
12. Not by the hair of my shinny-shin-shin.
13. Starts as six, ends as one, breaking the bottom one is no fun!
14. Don't let this flat shoulder bone cut you.
Down
1. Long legged people have longer longest bones.
2. Keeps your shoulders back.
3. The king of leg movement, un-hunh!
5. Wave these to say "bye".
7. I am not kidding, these really protect you.
8. Not as funny as you would think.
10. Hmmm, let me think about this one.
11. Close to your heart, this one is a shield.
Rock These Joints
1. 3-2-1- Writing
Identify three kinds of joints (definition). Explain two ways joints benefit the body
(complete sentences). Give one example of how joints can be damaged (paragraph).
2. Create a foldable. Make an illustration for each of the following, explain what the joint does,
and give an example for each kind of joint.
a. Gliding Joint
b. Ball and Socket joint
c. Hinge Joint
d. Pivot Joint
e. Fixed joint
Writing Assignment: TPEQEA
Using what you have learned choose, circle and complete two TPEQEA summaries on your
choice of the following topics:
1. What are five jobs the skeleton performs?
2. How does a trauma, like a fracture affect a bone?
3. How does arthritis affect a joint?
4. What are three different kinds of fractures?
5. How are the skeleton and the blood connected?
6. How do the skeleton and the muscles work together to help you move?
Complete the paragraph summaries on a separate piece of paper, and staple them to the
packet.
Labeled Bone Illustrations: Femur, Tibia, Fibula; Humerus, Radius, Ulna
Labeled Bone Illustrations: Scapula, Pelvis