For example, cartilage is found in the outer portion of the ear, in the nose, in the trachea as well as in our joints and other parts of the body. Now bone on the other hand is a much more rigid connective tissue and it is capable of resisting tensile and compressive forces. And that's exactly why bone gives us our structure and provides us with support and gives us our shape and it serves many other purposes as we'll see in just a moment. Now, the skeletal system of the human body is broken down into two divisions. We have the axile division, the axile skeleton which consists of the skull, the spinal cord and the ribcage. And we also have the apendicular skeleton that consists of the bones in the upper limbs, the arms in the lower limbs, our legs as well as our pelvic girdle and the pictorial girdle.