You are presented with the question "What provides protection for soft tissues and internal organs?" and the following answer choices: 
- fur and fat
 - eye color
 - peachleaf willow
 - synapses
 - a cuticle
 - layers of fat
 - nerves
 - the skeleton

Now knowing that bone provides protection for soft tissues and internal organs and bone is the substance that forms the skeleton of the body, choose the best answer.


 

        the skeleton 