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6. What is a flat bone?

  • Only seen in Aquarius species
  • Wide, flat, protects internal organs, allow big muscles to attach, e.g ribs, skull, pelvis, nasal
  • An old bone which has since evolved into our legs
  • Exactly the same as a short bone just another name

7. What is a long bone?

  • Rib cage
  • Not a bone type
  • Long, provide strength, structure and mobility e.g femur, tibia
  • The vertebrae

8. What is a short bone?

  • Toes and fingers (phalanges)
  • Wide, cube shaped, provide support and stability, e.g carpals and tarsals
  • Is a muscle not a bone in the kneecap
  • Not a bone type

9. What makes up the fore limb?

  • I don't know
  • Femur, humerus, phalanges
  • Humerus, ulna , radius, carpals, metacarpals, phalanges
  • tibia, ulna, tarsals, carpals

10. What is a sesamoid bone?

  • Not a bone type
  • A bone found in the muscles
  • Small, 'floating', embedded in tendons, e.g patella
  • Makes up the carpals and tarsals, short

11. What is the Axial skeleton?

  • Skull and Spine
  • Forelimb and spine
  • hindlimb and sacrum
  • hindlimb and skull

12. What is axis?

  • Cervical vertebra moves head 360
  • Cervical vertebra moves head up and down
  • Cervical vertebra moves head side to side
  • Cervical vertebra moves head around