The interactive dog atlas · for the classroom
Worksheet: the dog's head
Print the page: the first sheet has the drawing with 13 numbered landmarks and the list to fill in, the second sheet the answer key. No student names, no score: it is an identification exercise.
Write the name of each numbered landmark
Answer key
- Head (caput) — From the nose leather to the nape, including the ears.
- Muzzle (rostrum) — The front part of the head, from the stop to the nose leather.
- Nose (nose leather) (planum nasale) — The tip of the muzzle, the hairless skin around the nostrils.
- Eye (oculus) — On the sides of the head, in the orbits, above the stop.
- Ear (auris) — On the top of the head, behind the eyes.
- Forehead (frons) — Above the eyes, on the frontal bone, between the stop and the crown.
- Stop (no anatomical term) — The step between the forehead and the bridge of the nose, between the eyes.
- Cheek (bucca) — The lateral wall of the mouth, from the corner of the lips to below the ear.
- Lips (labium superius / inferius) — Around the opening of the mouth; the corner of the mouth reaches the level of the cheek teeth.
- Chin (mentum) — Below the lower lip, at the tip of the mandible.
- Nostrils (nares) — The two openings of the nose, in the planum nasale of the nose leather.
- Vibrissae (tactile hairs) (pili tactiles) — On the upper and lower lip, on the cheeks, on the chin and above the eyes.
- Eyelids (palpebrae) — Around the opening of the eye; the third eyelid in the corner toward the nose.