Skeletal System Part 1

Select all of the functions of the skeletal system.

• Support the body

• Protect soft organs

• Movement with attachment of muscle

• Storage of minerals and fats

• Blood cell formation

A process that grows out from a bone in order to allow for attachment is what classification of bone marking?

• Depression

• Projection

• Long Bone

• Short Bone

What classification of bone markings are holes or indentations that allow for passage of blood vessels and/or nerves?

• Depressions

• Projections

• Osteon

• Lacunae

Select all of the classifications of bone.

• Long Bone

• Short Bone

• Flat Bone

• Irregular Bone

• Sesamoid

What is a bone that is typically longer than wide, has a shaft with two ends, and is mostly comprised of compact bone classified as?

• Long bone

• Short bone

• Flat bone

• Irregular bone

• Sesamoid bone

What is a bone that is generally cube-shaped and contains mostly spongy bone classified as?

• Long bone

• Short bone

• Flat bone

• Irregular bone

• Sesamoid bone

What is a bone that is thin and flattened, usually curved, and is comprised of thin layers of compact bone around a layer of spongy bone classified as?

• Long bone

• Short bone

• Flat bone

• Irregular bone

• Sesamoid bone

What are bones that are irregular shape and do not fit into other bone classification categories classified as?

• Long bone

• Short bone

• Flat bone

• Irregular bone

• Sesamoid bone

What are bones that are embedded in muscle or tendon classified as?

• Long bone

• Short bone

• Irregular bone

• Sesamoid bone

• Flat bone

What is the bone marking that is only found on the femur and no other bone?

• Foramen Magnum

• Trochanter

• Fissure

• Head