This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 118 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 118 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which of the following lists the organization of life in the correct order from largest to smallest? A) Organism, Cells, Tissues, Atoms, Organelles, Organ systems. B) Organ systems, organism, cells, tissues, atoms, organelles. C) Organism, Organ system, Organs, Tissues, Cells, Atoms. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Organism, Organ system, Organs, Tissues, Cells, Atoms. 2. An endoskeleton is on the A) Inside. B) Outside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inside. 3. Newborn babies have fewer bones than adults. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. Which fibrous joints contain interosseous membranes? A) Symphyses. B) Gomphoses. C) Synchondroses. D) Sutures. E) Connection. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Connection. 5. Which organ is made mostly of muscle? A) Ear. B) Brain. C) Lung. D) Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heart. 6. What is the purpose of bone marrow? A) Produce blood cells. B) Store fat. C) Produce hormones. D) Regulate body temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Produce blood cells. 7. When does the Ossification process end? A) Age 20. B) Age 25. C) Age 30. D) Age 18. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Age 25. 8. Presence of an epiphyseal line indicates that the bone ..... A) Length is increasing. B) Diameter is increasing. C) Length is decreasing. D) Diameter is decreasing. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Length is increasing. 9. A fracture in which the bone is excessively twisted; common in sports A) Oblique. B) Transverse. C) Spiral. D) Linear. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spiral. 10. Who has more bones:an adult or a baby? A) Baby. B) Adult. C) Both have the same. D) Neither have bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Baby. 11. What does the combining form lord/o mean? A) Hump. B) Bent backward. C) Crooked. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bent backward. 12. Which of the following is a joint that moves freely in all directions? A) Hinge Joint. B) Ball-and-Socket Joint. C) Plane Joint. D) Pivot Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ball-and-Socket Joint. 13. The femur, kneecap, and humerous are apart of the ..... system. A) Axial. B) Appendicular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appendicular. 14. What is the scientific name of a shoulder blade? A) Sternum. B) Ribs. C) Clavicle. D) Scapula. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scapula. 15. Bone marrow that produces RBC A) Joints. B) Yellow bone marrow. C) Cartilage. D) Red bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red bone marrow. 16. Your knee would be an example of which type of joint? A) Hinge. B) Ball & Socket. C) Gliding. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinge. 17. Osteogensis is known as A) Bone growth. B) Bone development. C) Bone-forming cells. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bone development. 18. Muscles are connected to bone by A) Tendons. B) Fascia. C) Cartilage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tendons. 19. Includes bones, ligaments, joints and cartilage A) Cartilage System. B) Muscular System. C) Nervous System. D) Skeletal System. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skeletal System. 20. The 3 Main roles of the body are ..... A) Strength, Balance & Movement. B) Control, Balance & Support. C) Support, Protection, Movement. D) Mobility, Protection & Balance. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Support, Protection, Movement. 21. A plate of hyaline cartilage at the junction of the diaphysis and epiphysis that provides for growth in length of a long bone. A) Epiphyseal plate. B) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epiphyseal plate. 22. Articulating ends of long bones are capped with this type of cartilage ..... A) Bone proper. B) Hyaline. C) Epiphysis. D) Diaphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyaline. 23. Any muscles that are not consciously A) Involuntary muscles. B) Skeletal muscles. C) Voluntary muscles. D) Smooth muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Involuntary muscles. 24. What are the parts of the bone? A) Spongy bone, epiphyseal line, blood vessels, compact bone, bone marrow. B) Spongy bone, bone marrow, compact bone, blood vessel,. C) Spongy bone, blood vessels, compact bone, tendon, femur. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spongy bone, epiphyseal line, blood vessels, compact bone, bone marrow. 25. The skull consists of the ..... A) Temporal and occipital bones. B) Sphenoid and hyoid bones. C) Vertebrae and discs. D) Cranium and facial bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cranium and facial bones. 26. What is the point called where two or more bones come together? A) Tissue. B) Muscle. C) Socket. D) Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joint. 27. The bone in your thigh is the longest and strongest bone in your body. What is the scientific name for the thigh bone? A) Femur. B) Cranium. C) Pelvis. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Femur. 28. Functions of bones include all of the follow except: A) Red blood cell formation. B) Gives the body form. C) Generates heat. D) Protects internal organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Generates heat. 29. I consist of the arm and leg bones A) Axial skeleton. B) Appendicular skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appendicular skeleton. 30. Eating junk food every day is a good way of taking care of our skeletal system. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 31. The outer layer of bone that covers and protects? A) Diaphysis. B) Periosteum. C) Osteon. D) Epiphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periosteum. 32. How many bones make up the vertebral column? A) 41. B) 50. C) 30. D) 33. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 33. 33. At what age are your bones at their maximum density? (When do they have the greatest mass) A) 20. B) 18. C) 30. D) 50. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 30. 34. The location of the smallest bone is in, , , A) Palm. B) Ear. C) Neck. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ear. 35. Provides shape and support, movement, protects your internal organs, produces blood cells, A) Skeletal system. B) Digestive system. C) Nervous system. D) Muscular system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal system. 36. Which of these bones is not in the axial skeleton? A) The Spine. B) The Femur. C) The Skull. D) The Rib Cage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The Femur. 37. Which disease is found mostly in the elderly? A) Osteoporosis. B) Scoliosis. C) Osteomalacia. D) Breaks, fractures, and sprains. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis. 38. Which type of diatrotic joint can be found in the thumb? A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Saddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saddle. 39. A special type of short bone that is a small and nodular round bone; develops within a tendon or adjacent to a joint, such as the kneecap (patella A) Flat bones. B) Sesamoid bones. C) Irregular bones. D) Long bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sesamoid bones. 40. Exoskeletons have "bones" on the ..... A) Outside. B) Inside. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Outside. 41. Which type of bone is longer than they are wide. They have a shaft with heads at both ends. A) Short. B) Irregular. C) Flat. D) Long. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Long. 42. BONUS QUESTION:What Halloween costume did Johnny Lawrence wear in the original Karate Kid movie? A) Shower Curtain. B) Zombie. C) Pirate. D) Skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skeleton. 43. In which type of marrow are blood cells synthesized? A) Yellow. B) White. C) Blue. D) Red. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red. 44. Which body organ is responsible in breathing in oxygen and breathe out carbon dioxide? A) Heart. B) Brain. C) Lungs. D) Stomach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lungs. 45. What is the clear fluid? A) Cerebrospinal fluid. B) Saliva. C) Aqueous humour. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cerebrospinal fluid. 46. Which is an example of an organism? A) A rock. B) A lake. C) A beetle. D) A shell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A beetle. 47. What system supports and protects your internal organs? A) Muscular. B) Digestive. C) Skeletal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal. 48. What is the name of the middle layer of the skin? A) Subcutaneous. B) Dermal. C) Epidermal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dermal. 49. The interaction of the skeletal and muscular systems to produce locomotion is coordinated by which human body system? A) Respiratory. B) Circulatory. C) Excretory. D) Nervous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nervous. 50. This part of bone is very dense, allowing it to withstand compressive forces. A) Spongy bone. B) Big bone. C) Bone marrow. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compact bone. 51. The skull is part of the appendicular skeleton? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 52. The outside of the bone is called the ..... A) Compact. B) Periosteum. C) Marrow. D) Cancellous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periosteum. 53. A muscle that bends a joint A) Tendon. B) Bo. C) Flexor. D) Extensor. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flexor. 54. Where is your humerus? A) Upper arm. B) Lower leg. C) Upper leg. D) Lower arm. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Upper arm. 55. Your skeleton protects organs, gives your body shape, and ..... A) Grows new bones as we age. B) Circulates blood. C) Allows movement. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allows movement. 56. WHAT IS THE LONGEST AND STRONGEST BONE? A) PELVIS. B) HUMERUS. C) FEMUR. D) PATELLA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) FEMUR. 57. Which levels of organization completes a series of tasks? A) Organ system. B) Organ. C) Tissue. D) Cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organ system. 58. What bone disorder is an infection of the bone that causes pain and discomfort? A) Osteoarthritis. B) Gouty arthritis. C) Paget disease. D) Osteomyelitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteomyelitis. 59. Ribs that are NOT attached to the sternum are called A) False ribs. B) Floating ribs. C) BBQ ribs. D) True ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Floating ribs. 60. Hemopoiesis isLa hematopoyesis es A) A section of the skeletal system. B) A term for blood cell formation. C) Is a process that occurs in the bone marrow of long bones. D) Both 2 and 3 are correctAmbas 2 y 3 son correctas. 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