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Question
1. Why do the bone structures around your head and chest create a convex, enclosed area, unlike the bones in your arms and legs?
2. Why might (mostly) boneless creatures, like jellyfish, sea slugs, squid, and octopuses, fare especially well underwater? What is it about the physics of being underwater that would allow relatively large, sometimes highly mobile creatures to flourish that isn't true for boneless land creatures?
3. Name two significant ways your skeletal system and your circulatory system support one another.
4. What is the purpose of the menisci found in your knee, jaw, shoulders, and wrists? Why might there be a meniscus there but not, say, for your skull joints? Why might menisci be found in other joints in other animals?
5. What purposes distinguish the bones that make up the axial skeleton and the appendicular skeleton?