This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 127 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 127 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Joint present in toes and ankle respectively. A) Hinge joint and gliding joint. B) Pivot joint and gliding joint. C) Hinge joint and ball and socket joint. D) Gliding joint and hinge joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinge joint and gliding joint. 2. What is responsible for holding bones together? A) Ligaments. B) Cartildge. C) Blood. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ligaments. 3. Where do red and white blood cells produced A) Bone marrow. B) Limbs. C) Heart. D) Nose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bone marrow. 4. Which vitamin and mineral is necessary for proper absorption? A) Vitamin A and calcium. B) Vitamin C and iron. C) Vitamin K and iron. D) Vitamin D and calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vitamin D and calcium. 5. All are diarthrotic A) Synovial. B) Fibrous. C) Cartilaginous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synovial. 6. The prefix endo means A) Outside. B) On top of. C) Around. D) Inside. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inside. 7. An example of a saddle joint can be found in the thumb. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 8. Your carpals are an example of A) Long bone. B) Flat bone. C) Short bone. D) Irregular bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Short bone. 9. What does calcium attach in a muscle contraction? A) Tropomyosin. B) Troponin. C) Myosin. D) Actin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Troponin. 10. Which mineral makes up the majority of our bone matrix? A) Lithium. B) Magnesium. C) Calcium. D) Sodium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calcium. 11. Rings in muscles that control opening and closing: A) Antagonist. B) Smooth muscle. C) Contraction. D) Sphincter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sphincter. 12. What is a common injury that can occur to ligaments? A) Stretching and tearing. B) Broken bone. C) Solid swelling of clotted blood. D) Black and white image of bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stretching and tearing. 13. Where can you find the periosteum? A) Between the layers of spongy bone. B) On the outermost portion of your bones. C) In the hollows of your bones. D) In the innermost portion of your bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) On the outermost portion of your bones. 14. Osteoporosis is too ..... bone being made for the body. A) Little. B) Much. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Much. 15. Don't let the bones move at all, like the joints between your skull bones: A) Antagonist joints. B) Partly movable joints. C) Immovable joints. D) Movable joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Immovable joints. 16. What is the epiphyseal plate made of? A) Yellow marrow. B) Spongy bone tissue. C) Cartilage. D) Compact bone tissue. E) Red marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilage. 17. Fat storage takes place in which part of the bone? A) Yellow marrow. B) Cortical bone. C) Red marrow. D) Osteons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yellow marrow. 18. What best describes the epiphyseal line? A) Connective tissue in bones. B) Growth plate in long bones. C) Canal housing blood vessels. D) Ring of bone tissue surrounding haversian canal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Growth plate in long bones. 19. Which system provides shape and support, movement, and protects organs A) Nervous. B) Respiratory. C) Circulatory. D) Skeletal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skeletal. 20. The hard palate is made of which bones? A) Maxilla and palatine. B) Maxilla and mandible. C) Palatine and mandible. D) Vomer and palatine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maxilla and palatine. 21. What is the inside of the bone that holds bone marrow called? A) Diaphysis. B) Medulla. C) Periosteum. D) Epiphysis. E) Endosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medulla. 22. What kind of tissue is the forerunner of long bones in the embryo? A) Hyaline cartilage. B) Elastic cartilage. C) Fibrocartilage. D) Dense fibrous connective tissue. E) Elastic connective tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyaline cartilage. 23. The branching network of bone in spongy bone is called A) Osteoclasts. B) Lacunae. C) Beams. D) Lamellae. E) Osteoblasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beams. 24. Which system's primary function is movement and flexibility? A) Skeletal. B) Muscular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muscular. 25. Animals with a back bone A) Vertebrates. B) Invertebrates. C) Segments. D) Mucous. E) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vertebrates. 26. What fraction of the human population has an extra pair of ribs? A) 1 in 500. B) 1 in 50. C) 1 in 5, 000. D) 1 in 50, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1 in 500. 27. Which organ system below which are attached to the bones to help them to move? A) Skeletal system. B) Circulatory system. C) Muscular system. D) Digestive system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muscular system. 28. One way to care for you bones is being physically active A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 29. What type of bones are found where tendons pass over joints? A) Flat bones. B) Short bones. C) Long bones. D) Sesamoid bones. E) Irregular bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sesamoid bones. 30. Which type of bone is responsible for hematopoiesis? A) Short bones. B) Long bones. C) Irregular bones. D) Flat bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flat bones. 31. A part of a bone that sticks out. A) Process. B) Sinus. C) Meatus. D) Foramen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Process. 32. Spongy bone would primarily be found where in a bone? A) Endosteum. B) Periosteum. C) Diaphysis. D) Epiphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epiphysis. 33. This connective tissue is on the outer layer of some bones and provides a cushion to keep the bones from grinding together A) Joints. B) Cartilage. C) Ligaments. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cartilage. 34. The bones are held together at the joints by strong structure called A) Ball and socket joints. B) Immovable Joints. C) Pivot Joints. D) Ligaments. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ligaments. 35. What are the two largest tarsals in the foot that carry most of the body's weight? A) Calcaneus and talus. B) Talus and cuboid. C) Cuboid and navicular. D) Cuneiform and calcaneus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calcaneus and talus. 36. The bone to protect brain and support our face is ..... A) Collar bone. B) Neck bone. C) Skull. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skull. 37. Which skeletal system does the skull A) Appendicular. B) Axial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axial. 38. What is the job of the red marrow A) Vit D production. B) Blood cell production. C) Fat storage. D) Bone growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blood cell production. 39. Which bone is an example of an Irregular bone? A) Carpal. B) Vertebrae. C) Skull. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vertebrae. 40. Which part of the body contains 54 bones? A) Hand. B) Foot. C) Arm. D) Leg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hand. 41. Which of the following is an example of a fibrous joint A) Shoulder. B) Skull sutures. C) Shoulder. D) Hip. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skull sutures. 42. What is the major component of the skeletal system? A) Body central. B) Organs. C) Hand. D) Leg. E) Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Body central. 43. The outermost and thinnest layer of the skin is the: A) Dermis. B) Epidermis. C) Subcutaneous Layer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epidermis. 44. The joints of the shoulder and pelvis are considered what kind of joint? A) Saddle. B) Condylar. C) Ball and socket. D) Plane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ball and socket. 45. Compact bone contains circular units called ..... A) Lacunae. B) Beams. C) Canals. D) Osteons. E) Lamellae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteons. 46. These are the bridges or struts in bone that branch and formnetworks of bone that are very strong, but do not add weight to the overall structure. A) Osteons. B) Hot dogs. C) Beams. D) Lacunae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beams. 47. Organ X is a place for exchanging carbon dioxide and oxygen gases. What is organ X? What is organ X? A) Kidney Kidney. B) Heart Heart. C) Lungs. D) Blood vesselsBlood vessels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lungs. 48. What is the tough connective tissue that is made of tangled fibers of protein called? A) Bone. B) Collagen. C) Cartilage. D) Enamel. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilage. 49. Which type of joint connects our skull bones? (page 138 & 139) A) Fibrous. B) Cartilaginous. C) Synovial. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fibrous. 50. Hey Liam, Aria, and David! Can you guess which one is known as the bone breaker? A) Calcium. B) Osteoclast. C) Osteoblast. D) Greenstick. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoclast. 51. When you break your bones, they ALWAYS stay broken A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 52. Which of the following best describes:Hematopoiesis A) The formation of blood vessels. B) The formation of blood cells. C) The formation of compact bone. D) The formation of cancellous bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The formation of blood cells. 53. What is the major inorganic constituent of bone? A) Osteoid. B) Growth factors. C) Calcium phosphate. D) Collagen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calcium phosphate. 54. Which joint is found in the skull? A) Hinge Joints. B) Gliding Joints. C) Immovable Joints. D) Pivot Joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Immovable Joints. 55. ..... is a tough membrane that covers the outside of the bone that contains blood vessels, lymph vessels, and osteoblasts A) Periosteum. B) Endosteum. C) Epiphysis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Periosteum. 56. What does red bone marrow produce? A) Hormones. B) Red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. C) Fat cells. D) Calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. 57. How does the number of bones in your body change as you grow older? A) Your bones split and create new bones. B) Your bones fuse and join together. C) You fall and break your bones. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Your bones fuse and join together. 58. What might happen if an older person didn't get enough calcium? A) She might develop wrinkles. B) She might lose her taste buds at a rapid rate. C) She'd be at greater risk for broken bones. D) She might develop trouble hearing. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) She'd be at greater risk for broken bones. 59. What is the largest bone in the body?scapulahumerusfemurcarilage A) Humerus. B) Femur. C) Carlage. D) Scapula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Femur. 60. The finger bones do not have joints. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesSkeletal System Quiz 1Skeletal System Quiz 2Skeletal System Quiz 3Skeletal System Quiz 4Skeletal System Quiz 5Skeletal System Quiz 6Skeletal System Quiz 7Skeletal System Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books