Question

Children sing a song that goes 'head, shoulders, knees, and toes...' If they sang the names of the bones, it would be (in order)
A) Hyoid, sternum, patella, and tarsals.
B) Cranial, clavicle, tibia, and carpals.
C) Cranial, scapula, patella, and phalanges.
D) Clavicles, carpals, phalanges, and tarsals.

Answer 1

Hint:
In the above song the body parts head, shoulders, knees, and toes, the body parts are described from the top of the body to the bottom of the body as the head is present on the top and the toes at the bottom. So we need to arrange the bones given in the options from top to bottom.

Complete step by step solution:
If we start from the head then cranial bones are present in the skull. The axial skeleton comprises 80 bones distributed along the main axis of the body. Skull has two types of bone: cranial and facial. Now comes the scapula, scapula is a large triangular flat bone situated in the dorsal part of the thorax between the second and the seventh ribs. Then comes the patella which is present in the knees. The ventral portion of the knee is covered by a cup-shaped bone named the patella. Phalanges are also called digits. These are 14 in number and these are the bone of the legs or hind limbs. So from head to toe, the correct order will be Cranial, scapula, patella, and phalanges.

Option ‘C’ is correct

Note:
Skeletal muscles consist of a framework of bones and a few cartilages. The Skeleton system plays an important role in the movements of our body. Suppose we had to chew food without bones in our jaw and also walk and run without limb bones.