Bone length: review | Science | Quizalize & Oak National Academy

Starter quiz

True or false? The bones in your body are living.

True ✓
False
Match the name of the bone to where you find it in your body.

ribs

⇔

chest ✓

skull

⇔

head ✓

spine

⇔

back ✓

femur

⇔

leg ✓

humerus

⇔

arm ✓
Which piece of measuring equipment would you use to measure the length of your leg?

ruler

tape measure ✓

trundle wheel
What do scientists call all the things needed to carry out an investigation?

'equipment' ✓
Match the equipment to the thing it would measure.

thermometer

⇔

temperature ✓

weighing scales

⇔

mass ✓

ruler

⇔

length ✓
"Do bones grow as we get older?" is a ______ that a scientist might investigate.

'question' ✓

True or false: Your bones continue to grow all of your life.

'false' ✓
Match the age of the person to the circumference of their head.

2 years old

⇔

41 cm ✓

7 years old

⇔

47 cm ✓

16 years old

⇔

54 cm ✓

40 years old

⇔

58 cm ✓
What type of science investigation would a scientist do if they wanted to find out if your head gets bigger as you get older?

pattern seeking ✓

research

classifying

grouping
Which parts of the body could you measure to estimate the height of a person?

ulna ✓

finger length

arm span ✓

head circumference
What does looking for patterns in data help a scientist do?

Understand how one thing affects another. ✓

Understand what equipment to use.

Understand how to record their data.

Understand what question to investigate.
Which of these conclusions would explain what happens to the size of your foot as you get older?

Bones stay the same size all your life.

Bones get smaller as you get older.

Bones grow until you reach adulthood. ✓

Bones are dead so they do not change.

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Scientists look for patterns in data, to tell them how one thing affects another thing.
The conclusion of an investigation is when scientists explain what the results show or mean.
Our bones grow in length as we age, until we become an adult.
The length of some bones can be used to estimate the length of other bones, and our body height.

Children may think that bones continue to grow throughout their lives.

Spend time looking at the data they have collected and reinforcing the fact that our bones stop growing when we reach early adulthood.

Patterns in data - Scientists look for patterns in data to answer their questions.
Effect - Effect is the change that occurs between two things that we can observe.
Conclusion - In a conclusion, scientists explain what the results show or mean.
Adult - The adult is the mature form of a plant or animal.
Estimate - An estimate is a guess of what the size, value or amount of something might be.