How does the spine protect the spinal cord?

Question

How does the spine protect the spinal cord?

Answer 1

The vertebrae of the spine protects the very important nerve endings of the spinal cord, protecting it from damage and allowing your brain to send messages to the rest of your body uninterupted. Thats why spine injuries are so important to treat. If your spinal cord is so much as touched or poked by anything, that could reak major havoc on your bodies neurological system.

Answer 2

It provides a bony structure that prevents things from injuring it.  

It prevents the cord from being stretched, compressed, or bent.

Answer 3

Imagine if you had no spine bone and someone hit you in the back.  It would hit all your nerves and you would probably die.

When you have a bone (spine) surrounding it that won't happen.

Answer 4

same way your ribs protect your lungs.  the nerves in your spinal cord are very sesitive and if they are damaged they will stop working so you could die and that would suck so you need a spine