Skull Bone Quiz: Axial Skeleton Anatomy Lab

What is the name of the bone that forms the forehead?

Which suture is located between the frontal and parietal bones?

What is the name of the process of the temporal bone that forms the temporal fossa?

Which bone forms the upper jaw and contains the sockets of the teeth?

What is the name of the small bone that forms the posterior part of the hard palate?

What is the name of the bony prominence at the back of the skull?

Which rib is the shortest and widest?

What is the name of the vertebra that has a distinctive dens?

Which part of the sternum is the longest and thinnest?

Which bone forms the anterior portion of the roof of the cranial cavity?

Which of the following bones is NOT part of the axial skeleton?

Which suture forms the boundary between the frontal and Parietal bones?

Which type of vertebrae has a larger vertebral body and a thicker intervertebral disc?

What is the term for the junction between the ribs and the sternum?

Which of the following bones is NOT part of the skull?

Which part of the skull contains the foramen magnum?

Which of the following bones has a distinctive dens?

Which of the following bones forms the posterior part of the hard palate?

Axial Skeleton

Skull

Anterior view: composed of frontal bone, nasal bone, zygomatic bone, maxilla, and alveolar process of maxilla
Superior view: composed of frontal bone, parietal bone, occipital bone, coronal suture, sagittal suture, and lambdoid suture
Lateral view: composed of frontal bone, parietal bone, squamous part of temporal bone, occipital bone, coronal suture, mastoid process of temporal bone, zygomatic arch, and sphenoid bone
Inferior view: composed of palatine process of maxilla, palatine bone, sphenoid bone, mandibular fossa, mastoid process, occipital condyle, foramen magnum, and external occipital protuberance
Cranial cavity: composed of anterior cranial fossa, sella turcica, petrous part of temporal bone, middle cranial fossa, posterior cranial fossa, and foramen magnum

Mandible

Composed of head of mandible, ramus, angle of mandible, and body of mandible

Sternum

Composed of manubrium sterni, sternal angle, costal cartilage of second rib, body of sternum, and xiphoid process

Ribs

Composed of head, neck, tubercle, shaft, angle, costo-chondral junction (costal notch), and costal groove
1st rib is distinct

Vertebral Column

Composed of cervical vertebrae, thoracic vertebrae, lumbar vertebrae, sacrum, and coccyx
C1 (atlas) and C2 (axis) are distinct vertebrae
Dens of axis is a notable feature of C2 vertebra

Test your knowledge of the axial skeleton, specifically the skull, with this lab quiz. Identify the different bones and structures from various views, including anterior, superior, and lateral views.