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| What is the place where two bones meet? |
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| What connects bone to bone? |
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| What connects bone to muscle? |
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| What are the 3 main kinds of joints? |
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fixed joints partly movable joints movable joints
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| skull - no movement allowed |
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| Name a partly movable joint. |
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| ribs and breast bone - allow a little bit of movement |
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| What type of joint are most body joints? |
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What are 4 major kinds of movable joints? |
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ball and socket joint gliding joint hinge joint pivotal joint
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What kind of movable joint is between your arm and shoulder and between your leg and hip? |
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ball and socket joint It allows bones to move in most directions. |
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| What kind of movable joint is in your wrist and ankle? |
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gliding joint It allows some movement in all directions. |
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| What kind of movable joint is in your elbow and knee? |
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hinge joint It allows bones to move forward and backward in only one direction. |
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| What kind of moveable joint is between your skull and neck? |
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pivotal joint It allow bones to move side to side and up and down. |
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| Where can you find cartilage? |
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between the bones in many movable joints to cushion them and allow for easy movement between the bones in the spinal column to act as a shock absorber tip of nose ears
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