Joints and Movement Edexcel GCSE PE

The wrist joint is a

• Pivot

• Ball and Socket

• Condyloid

• Hinge

Tick the ball and socket joints

• Shoulder

• Knee

• Neck

• Hip

• Ankle

The bones that allow the neck to pivot are called the

• atlas and axis

• ball and socket

• ligaments and tendons

• radius and ulna

Which bone protects the brain when heading a football?

Muscles are attached to bones by...

• Ligaments

• Cartilage

• Tendons

• Calcium

Tick the movements available at the knee joint

• Flexion

• Abduction

• Circumduction

• Extension

• Plantar Flexion

Which function of the skeletal system prevents damage to vital organs?

• movement

• protection

• rib cage

• calcium

Joints work together with bones and muscles to form...

• tendons

• levers

• skeleton

• cartilage

Ossification

• They type of movement created by antagonistic pairs.

• The different sizes of bones that determine your body shape.

• A firm connective tissue.

• the process of development from cartilage to bone.

The vertebrae are a type of

• irregular bone

• flat bone

• short bone

• long bone