If you are seen on any website that is not directly related to this webquest, you will be assigned a detention and will be removed from the computer. You will be required to complete this assignment using your textbook as a guide.
Open a Word document and copy and paste the following questions into it. You will type your answers to the questions in this document. Five minutes before the end of the class period, you should print the Word document and turn it in, even if it is incomplete.
Go to my anatomy and physiology website.
**If at any time you get a pop-up, close it or click “no”.
Click the link to the e-museum website
Read the introduction on this page.
1. How many red blood cells are produced by the marrow per second?
First we will learn about the axial skeleton. Click on the link for the skull. Read this information.
2. What is the function of the cranial bones?
3. Which bones make up the cranium?
Click on the link for each of the first four cranial bones.
4. Describe in your own words the location of the frontal bone.
5. Describe in your own words the location of the parietal bone.
6. Describe in your own words the location of the temporal bone.
7. Describe in your own words the location of the occipital bone.
8. Define suture.
9. Define fontanelle. Who would you expect to have fontanelles?
10. Where are the facial bones found?
Click on the links for each facial bone and describe the locations for the following:
11. Mandible
12. Maxilla
13. nasal
14. lacrimal
You should be able to classify all skull bones as either cranial or facial, and you should be able to label on a diagram the locations of the bones you wrote about above.
Now go back to the main e-museum page. Click on the sternum link.
15. Using the vocab words from Ch.1, describe the locations of the manubrium and the xiphoid process with respect to the body of the sternum.
16. Why is the sternum important?
Go back to the main page and click on the ribs link.
17. Describe the locations of the true ribs.
18. What are the first three pairs of false ribs attached to?
19. Name five internal organs that the ribs protect.
Back to the main page. Click on the vertebral column link.
20. If you are in an accident that may have damaged your neck, the paramedical usually put a “C-collar” on you. What do you think the C stands for?
21. Why do you get shorter as you age?
22. When do humans develop the lumbar curve?
23. What is the scientific name for the “funny bone”?
Back to the main page. Click on the upper extremities link.
24. Which is longer, the radius or the ulna?
25. When reading about the forearm, try to feel you radius crossing over your ulna. Can you?
26. Compare the skeletal structure of the thumb to that of the other finger bones.
Back to the main page. Click on the lower extremities link.
27. What is the common name for the patella?
28. What is the scientific name of the heel bone?
29. What is the hallux and how many phalanges does it have?
30. Why are the leg bones the heaviest and strongest bones?
Back to the main page. Click on the shoulder girdle.
31. What have we been calling the shoulder girdle?
32. In your own words, what is the primary function of the shoulder girdle?
Back to the main page. Click on the pelvic girdle.
33. The coxal bones have three sections each with its own name. Why do we have three names for parts of one bone?
34. There is a mistake on this page!! It says that the pubic symphysis is a muscle. It is not. Do a Google search to find out what kind of tissue the pubic symphysis is actually made of. Write the answer along with the website from which you got the answer.
35. Name one reason a woman would need to have a caesarean section.
36. What is a caesarean section? Look it up if you don’t know!
Back to the main page. Click on the link and read about bone cells.
37. List the five types of bone cells and their functions.
38. Which three types of bone cells have we already discussed?
You may now look at any other website that is linked to the skeletal portion of my site. You should be only looking at bones!