4.3

Question 1

Axial Skeleton primary function

Answer 1

Protects the brain, spinal cord, heart, and lungs

Question 2

Bones included in the Axial Skeleton (7)

Answer 2

-Cranium
-Facial bones
-Hyoid
-Sternum
-Ribs
-Vertebrae
-Sacrum

Question 3

Primary function of the Appendicular Skeleton

Answer 3

Attaches the appendages to the axial skeleton

Question 4

What bone marking is a prominent rounded surface (for articulation)?

Answer 4

Head

Question 5

What bone marking is a rounded surface (for articulation)?

Answer 5

Condyle

Question 6

What bone marking is a flat surface (for articulation)?

Answer 6

Facet

Question 7

What bone marking is a prominence feature (projection)?

Answer 7

Process

Question 8

What bone marking is a small, rounded process (projection)?

Answer 8

Tubercle

Question 9

What bone marking is a rough surface (projection)?

Answer 9

Tuberosity

Question 10

What bone marking is a sharp process (projection)?

Answer 10

Spine

Question 11

What bone marking is an elongated basin (depression)?

Answer 11

Fossa

Question 12

What bone marking is a hole through bone?

Answer 12

Foramen

Question 13

What bone marking is a passage in bone?

Answer 13

Canal

Question 14

what is the only movable bone of the skull?

Answer 14

Mandible (lower jaw bone)

Question 15

What is the bone superior to the orbits that contains the supraorbital foramen.

Answer 15

Frontal bone

Question 16

what is the nerve passageway in the frontal bone

Answer 16

Supraorbital foramen

Question 17

What is the bone that forms the upper jaw, roof of the mouth, and contains the infraorbital foramen?

Answer 17

Maxilla bone

Question 18

what is the bone that articulates with the temporal bone to form the zygomatic arch?

Answer 18

Zygomatic bone

Question 19

what is the passage to the ear located in the temporal bone

Answer 19

External acoustic meatus

Question 20

What is the the muscle attachment feature on the posterior portion of the temporal bone?

Answer 20

Mastoid process

Question 21

What is the bone that contains the large opening for the brain and spinal cord, the foramen magnum?

Answer 21

Occipital bone

Question 22

what is the articulation points on the occipital bone that meet the atlas vertebra?

Answer 22

Occipital condyles

Question 23

what is the large hole allowing passage between the spinal cord and the brain?

Answer 23

Foramen magnum

Question 24

What are the articulations between skull bones

Answer 24

Sutures

Question 25

What isThe name for the "soft spots" between incompletely formed skull bones in an infant?

Answer 25

Fontanelles

Question 26

What is the suture between the two parietal bones

Answer 26

Sagittal suture

Question 27

What is the suture where the frontal bone meets the parietal bones?

Answer 27

Coronal suture

Question 28

what is the last fontanelle to fully ossify, located at the junction of the coronal and sagittal sutures

Answer 28

Anterior fontanelle

Question 29

what is the fontanelle located at the junction of the sagittal and lambdoidal sutures

Answer 29

Posterior (or Occipital) fontanelle

Question 30

Air-filled cavities within the skull that decrease weight and act as resonant sound chambers

Answer 30

Sinuses

Question 31

The largest sinuses, found within the maxilla bone

Answer 31

Maxillary sinuses

Question 32

The complex keystone bone that articulates with many other skull bones and separates the anterior and middle cranial fossae

Answer 32

Sphenoid bone

Question 33

The saddle-like depression in the sphenoid bone where the pituitary gland sits

Answer 33

Sella turcica

Question 34

The feature of the ethmoid bone that extends superiorly and provides an attachment point for the meninges (brain coverings)

Answer 34

Crista galli

Question 35

The bone and process that forms the posterior roof of the mouth

Answer 35

Palatine bone

Question 36

The bone that forms the posterior nasal cavity

Answer 36

Vomer

Question 37

Quiz question:The last fontanelle to ossify fully is usually the:

Answer 37

Anterior fontanelle

Question 38

Quiz question: The occipital bone primarily forms the:

Answer 38

Base of the cranium

Question 39

Quiz question: A fibrous membrane that connects cranial bones at birth is:

Answer 39

A fontanelle

Question 40

Quiz question: The palatine bone forms the roof of the:

Answer 40

Mouth

Question 41

Quiz question: What bone forms the ridge of the cheek bone of the face?

Answer 41

Zygomatic

Question 42

Quiz question: Which of the following is not part of the axial skeleton? 1. Skull 2. Shoulders 3. Ribs 4. Vertebrae

Answer 42

shoulders

Question 43

Quiz question: Which of the following is not part of the axial skeleton? 1. Ethmoid 2. Clavicle 3. Sternum 4. All are bones of the axial skeleton

Answer 43

Clavicle

Question 44

Quiz question: A small slit through a bone is a:

Answer 44

Fissure