Skeletal System

 

Go to the following site.  Use the handout from your teacher to answer the following questions about the skeletal system:

http://yucky.kids.discovery.com/noflash/body/pg000124.html 

1. What would happen if you didn’t have bones?

2. What are the 2 purposes of bones?  

3. How many bones does an adult have? 

4. What are attached to the bones that act as levers and cause your various body parts to move? 

5.  Like other cells in your body, what do the bone cells rely on to keep them alive? 

6. What does bone marrow make? 

7.  What % of critters on earth don't have a backbone or spine? 

8.  How many bones in the human hand?

9.  How many bones in your face?

10. What fraction of your height is your femur (thigh) bone? 

11.  What is the name of the smallest bone in your body? 

12.  Who has more bones in their neck—giraffes or humans?

 

Go to the following site and take on-line quiz for practice review

http://www.kidport.com/Grade5/Science/BodyBones.htm   

 

 

 

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