Chapter 2

1. What are the three jobs of your bones?

a. movement, structure, joints

b. movement, structure, protection

c. structure, digestion and breathing

d. movement, digestion and breathing

2. What is needed in your diet to help you have healthy bones?

a. Vitamin C b. Fruit

c. Chocolate d. Calcium

3. Skeleton and muscle work together to

a. move b. arm

c. leg d. sleep

4. Muscle act in ____________ around joints to allow us to move.

a. pairs b. alone

5. What do your bones protect?

a. organs b. skin

c. muscles d. feelings

6. What do we call the place where two or more bones meet?

a. head b. cranium

c. joints d. feet
7. Our skeleton gives us structure by...

a. bending and moving b. giving us shape and a frame

c. having a skull d. protecting us

8. What is the largest bone in the human body called?

a. Femir b. Femer

c. Femur d. Stirrup

9. Which organs do the ribs protect?

a. Brain b. Heart and lungs

c. Stomach d. Liver

10. Which activities does not use muscles?

a. Breathing air b. Remembering a name

c. Jumping rope d. Digesting the apples

11. Bones support the body. What pulls and pushes on bones to move
them?

a. Heart b. Nerves

c. Muscles d. Skins

12. What is the skeletal system made up of?

a. Organs b. Bones

c. Muscles d. Cells

13. What is the VERTEBRAE?

a. the bones in your hand b. the bones in your arm

c. the bones in your spine

a. nger b. spine

c. joint

15. How many bones does an adult human have?

a. 300 b. 306

c. 206 d. 602

16. The bones in your back (spine) are made up of ________.

a. ngers b. phalanges

c. vertebrate

17. What are the functions of the skeleton?

a. Protection b. Body shape

c. Movement d. All above

18. Human and animal such birds, sh, and other mammals have bony
skeletons inside their body. They are called . . . .

a. invertebrates b. skeleton

c. vertebrates d. muscles

19. What means exoskeletons?

a. Is the same as vertebrates animals

b. Hard skeletons on the outside of the bodies of the animals

c. Hard skeletons on the inside of the bodies of the animals

a. To enable movement

b. To protect the internal organs

c. To increase the weight of the body

d. To maintain the shape of the body

21. A shell is a type of _____

a. exoskeleton b. endoskeleton

c. hydrostatic skeleton

22. Most endoskeletons are made of.....

a. cartilage b. uid

c. bone

23. Tortoises and turtles have both endoskeletons and exoskeletons

a. TRUE b. FALSE

24. Mammals and birds get support from

a. endoskeleton b. Exoskeleton

25. An animal with a backbone is called a ...

a. Invertebrate b. Vertebrate

c. Spine d. Backbone

26. The other name of Backbone

a. Spine b. skeleton

c. Skull d. Rib cage

a. Body frame made up of esh

b. Body frame made up of bones

c. skeleton are muscles

d. Body uid made like blood

28. The vertebrae are separated by small cushions of

a. muscles b. rubbery cartilage

c. bones

29. What is the name of the bone that protects the chest?

a. The reebs b. The rib bone

c. The ribcage d. The ribbon

30. What is the main function of the skeletal system?

a. Support and structure for vital organs

b. Transportation of nutrients

c. Regulation of body temperature

d. Production of red blood cells

31. The brous bands that connects two bones in a joint are _________.

a. Cartilage b. Tendons

c. Ligaments d. Strings
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32. How do muscles work together?

a. Stretch and pull b. Up and down

c. Contraction and extension d. Right and left

33. Skeletal muscles are ____________

a. Voluntary b. Involuntary

34. Your stomach muscle is

a. Involuntary b. Voluntary

35. Movements that you choose to control ?

a. voluntary muscle b. involuntary muscle

36. Movements that you cannot control ?

a. voluntary muscle b. involuntary muscle

37. walking

a. voluntary b. involuntary

38. heart beat

a. Voluntary b. involuntary

39. jump

a. voluntary b. involuntary

40. running

a. voluntary b. involuntary

41. digestion

a. voluntary b. involuntary
42. reading

a. voluntary b. involuntary

43. Muscles pull on _______ to help you move.

a. Body parts b. Other muscles

c. Bones

44. What ties muscles to bones?

a. cartilage b. tendons

c. ligaments d. exors

45. What could you not do if you did not have muscles?

a. move b. think

c. feel

46. Skeletal muscles are attached to _________.

a. organs b. heart

c. bones d. lungs

47. What muscle is the arrow pointing toward?

a. biceps b. traps

c. pecs d. triceps
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 48. How do muscles work?

a. by pushing and pulling

b. by contracting and relaxing

c. by reeling out and in

d. by exing and planking

49. The location where two bones meet

a. Ligament b. Joint

c. Cramp d. Dislocation

50. What does the skeletal system do?

a. Support your body

b. Help your body move with muscles

c. all of the above

d. protect your organs

51. When a muscle contracts, it _______

a. gets longer b. gets shorter

c. gets thinner d. grows hair

52. Tendons connect what two things?

a. Bone to Bone b. Bone to Muscle

c. Muscle to Muscle d. Muscle to Organs

a. A place where one bone meets

b. A place where two bones meet

c. Bones don't meet

d. They connect bone to muscle

54. to become smaller or shorten in length

a. contract b. tendon

c. tissue d. muscle

55. tissue that can contract, producing movement

a. contract b. tendon

c. tissue d. muscle

56. This bone will help you stand up tall, bend and twist

a. Backbone b. Frontbone

57. The _______ bone protects your brain.

a. Tail b. Shin

c. Back d. Skull

58. _________ muscles are controlled by you.

a. Involuntary

b. Voluntary

59. __________ muscles you do not control.

a. Voluntary b. Involuntary
60. What are the 4 functions of the skeletal systems?

61. The muscles attached to your skeleton are ………….. muscles.

62. Models can be smaller or larger …………… of the real thing.

63. Models are used to show relationships, quantities or ……….

64. Bones are hard and strong and they form a rigid frame that is called
……………

65. The bone in our skeleton are connected to each other at ………….

66. We are able to bend and move our bodies. Joints are ……………

67. The skeletons and ………… work together so that we can move.

68. Muscles have to …………. to make a bone move.

69. Without your skeleton, your body would be soft and ………

70. The ………….. form a bony cage around your organs.

71. Humans and other animals that have a backbone (spine) are called
……………….