Chapter 7 Skeletal System
Study Guide Answers
Ms. K. Cox
Human A & P
Check your work as the answers appear on the screen.
• 1. bones support the weight of the body
and structures such as the head and face
• 2. bones protect delicate organs such as
the brain and spinal cord, heart and lungs
• 3. bones act as levers to which muscles
are attached
• 4. blood cells are produced within red
bone marrow
• 5. minerals such as calcium and
phosphorous are stored n the bone matrix
• 6. bones also contain nerves and blood
vessels
• 7. epiphyses
• 8. articular cartilage
• 9. diaphysis
• 10. periosteum
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11. medullary
12. endosteum
13. marrow
14. blood cell production
15. in spongy bone
16. marrow that functions to store fat
17. medullary cavitities
18. muscles
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19. osteocytes
20. lacunae
21. canaliculi
22. collagen
23. salts
24. most bones contain a mixture of
compact and spongy bone include the
skull the ribs, the vertebrae and the
sternum.
• 25. osteons
• 26. transverse
• 27. most bones of the body contain a
mixture of compact and spongy bone. The
diaphysis of a long bone is compact bone,
and compact bone covers the epiphyses.
• 28. bones form by replacing connective
tissue in the fetus.
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29. osteoblasts
30. osteocytes
31. periosteum
32. a soft spot in an infants skull where the
membrane has not yet completely ossified
• 33. hyaline
• 34. osteoblasts
• 35. secondary
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36. epiphseal
37. osteoclasts
38. osteoblasts
39. lengthening
40. thickness
41.axial
42. appendicular
• 43. Only 8 facial bones we are worried
about: maxillae, palatine, zygomatic,
lacrimal, nasal, vomer, inferior, mandible
• 44. zygomatic bones
• 45. vomer and ethmoid
• 46. palatine bones and the maxillae
• 47. zygomatic bone and the temporal bone
• 48. maxillae and mandible
• 49. fragile, scroll-like bones attached to lateral
wall of the nasal cavity
• 50. pedicles
• 51. lamina
• 52. atlas and the axis
• 53. five
• 54. coccyx
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• 56. spine
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57. articulates with scapula
58. trochlea
59. radius
60. tuberosity
61. carpal
62. metacarpals
63. hand phalanges
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66. coxal bone
67. sacrum
68. pubis
69. symphysis pubis
70. femur
71. acetabul
72. capitis
73. patella
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74. tibia
75. tarsal
76. tibial tuberosity
77. fibula
78. talus
79. metatarsals
80. foot phalanges
81. middle phalanx
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82. fibrous
83. cartilagenous
84. bursae
85. ball and socket
86. condyloid
87. gliding
88. hinge
89. pivot
• 90. saddle
• 91. insertion
Now count how many you missed
and multiple it by 4.4 pts.
• Each question was worth 4.4 pts each.
• Total points possible on this assignment
was 400 pts.
• On the front of the packet write out how
many you missed and what you earned
over 400.
• Example: -35 questions * 4.4 pts= -154pts
• 246/400,
62% D