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The Skull
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Forehead bone | Frontal bone |
| Cheekbone | Zygomatic bone |
| The only bone NOT attached to another bone | Hyoid bone |
| The hard palate is part of the | maxilla |
| Most of the lateral and superior cranial bones (top/side bones) | Parietal bone |
| Site of mastoid process/right behind your ear toward bottom of the skull | Temporal bone |
| most posterior part of cranium/skull. Back of the head bone | occipital bone |
| lower jaw/only movable bone of the skull | Mandible |
| Bridge of nose | Nasal bone |
| Bone between your nose and teeth, upper jaw | maxilla |
| The bone that is just behind your ear, lies behind frontal, below parietal and in front of occipital. | Temporal bone |
| The suture that separates the frontal from the parietal | Coronal Suture |
| The suture that separates the parietal from the temporal | Squamous Suture |
| The suture that separates the parietal and temporal from the occipital | Lambdoid Suture |
| Very large foremen that allows the brain stem to connect to the spinal cord | Magnum Foremen |