Bones Quiz

Bones hold you up and keep you from being superfloppy. They've got a lot of calcium. And I'm not telling you anything else about them, because this is a quiz. YOU have to figure out the answers.
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baby
Which has more bones: a baby or an adult?

a baby

an adult

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An adult. A baby is born with about 300 bones; many of these grow together. An adult only has 206. That's still a lot of bones.
smallest bones
Where is the smallest bone in your body?

The ear

The foot

The brain

The liver

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The smallest bone in your body is the stirrup bone behind your eardrum. Several of them could fit inside a hollowed-out pea.
what is a scapula?
What is a scapula?

Breastbone

Hip

One of those bones in your ear

Shoulder blade

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It's a shoulder blade. Turtles keep their scapulas inside their ribcage. Isn't that weird? Shrug your shoulders – now imagine if those bones were inside your ribcage. Uncomfortable!
What does bone marrow do?
What does bone marrow do?

Make liver cells

Make blood cells

Keep the bone from breaking

Look pretty

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Bone marrow makes blood cells. That's why people with cancers of the blood get bone marrow transplants. First toxic treatments are given to kill off their own bone marrow, then they get new bone marrow from someone else.
dinosaur leg bone, what are you actually looking at?
When you look at a dinosaur leg bone, what are you actually looking at?

Bone tissue made by a dinosaur

A mixture of rock shaped like a dinosaur bone and bone tissue made by a dinosaur

Rock carved by paleolithic man to look like a dinosaur bone

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You're mostly looking at rock shaped like a dinosaur bone. Over millions of years, minerals replace much of the dinosaur's bone molecule by molecule.
Which of these does not help prevent osteoporosis?
Which of these does not help prevent osteoporosis?

Weight-bearing exercise

Eating lots of foods with calcium

Drinking soda

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Drinking soda. Calcium and exercise make your bones stronger. (Drinking soda might make them weaker.)
grave robbers
Why, according to a Dec. 10, 2009 New York Times story, are grave robbers busy in Caracas, Venezuela?

Stealing bones for a Cuban religion

Burying children whose families can't afford burial

Stealing remains of famous people to sell to collectors

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They're stealing bones to sell to practitioners of a transplanted Cuban religion. A skull can sell for as much as $2,000.
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
In the book Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, what professor tried to regrow the broken bones in Harry Potter's arm and accidentally removed the bones instead, forcing Harry to undergo a painful night in the infirmary regrowing the bones with the help of Skele-Grow?

Albus Dumbledore

Minerva McGonagall

Argus Filch

Gilderoy Lockhart

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Gilderoy Lockhart, that year's Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher. He was pretty, but not very good at magic.

Hmmm

There's a song you should learn: "Oh, the head bone's connected to the neck bone..."

Correct

You've got a good grasp on the basics, but you might not know your carpals from your tarsals.

Correct

You're practically a bone doctor!

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