This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 129 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 129 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many bones are there in the wrist? A) 8. B) 5. C) 7. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 8. 2. A slow growing benign tumor derived from cartilage cells is known as ..... A) Chondroma. B) Arthrosclerosis. C) Osteomalacia. D) Ankylosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chondroma. 3. How many bones does cranium have? A) 22. B) 8. C) 14. D) 56. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8. 4. What is the skeleton's name in Mr. Rodgers classroom? A) Hal O. Gen. B) Ben E. King. C) Marcus Aurelius. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marcus Aurelius. 5. How many bones in adult human being A) 499. B) 206. C) 590. D) 367. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 6. Bones can repair themselves. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. This is the membrane lining the medullary cavity. A) Osteocyte. B) Periosteum. C) Endosteum. D) Lacunae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endosteum. 8. The thumb side bone on your forearm A) Radius. B) Tibia. C) Humerus. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Radius. 9. Red and white blood cells are produced in the bone marrow. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 10. Ossification has ..... phases. A) Three. B) Two. C) Four. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Two. 11. Where two bones meet A) Skull. B) Joint. C) Biceps. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joint. 12. ..... holds most of your weight. A) Feet. B) Head. C) Pelvis. D) Hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feet. 13. Where is the epiphysis region of the bone? A) Surrounds the bone. B) Cartilage found on the top and bottom of the bone. C) The region in the middle of the bone. D) The regions at the ends of the bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The regions at the ends of the bones. 14. What is the word for the definition Abnormal condition? A) -ago. B) -one. C) Or/about. D) Son/daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -ago. 15. Which muscle fibre type allows players in the majority of teams games (e.g. football/basketball/rugby etc) to maintain high intensity runs A) Type I. B) Type II. C) Type IIx. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Type II. 16. Which of the following is NOT apart of the function of the Skeleton System? A) Protection. B) Movement. C) Support. D) Storage & production. E) All of these are the functions of the Skeleton System. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of these are the functions of the Skeleton System. 17. During hemopoiesis, red blood cells are produced. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 18. The joint present in the wrist and ankles are A) None. B) Hinge. C) Ball and socket. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gliding. 19. Whats the smartest part? A) Mind. B) Ears. C) Nose. D) Eyes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mind. 20. The point at which two or more bones are joined together is called a: A) Joint. B) Cell. C) Tissue. D) Nerve. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joint. 21. Shoulder girdle also known as? A) Pectoral girdle. B) Pelvic girdle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pectoral girdle. 22. What classification of bones protects internal organs? A) Sesamoid. B) Short. C) Irregular. D) Flat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irregular. 23. Which joint is where the curved surface of the carpals joins with the radius? A) Saddle. B) Gliding. C) Condyloid. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Condyloid. 24. The powerful thigh bone is called A) Bone marrow. B) Phalanges. C) Metacarpals. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Femur. 25. A ..... joint has surfaces that are flat or slightly curved that slide. A) Gliding. B) Pivot. C) Ball and socket. D) On the soul. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gliding. 26. Also known as a vertebral crush fracture occurs when bones are pushed together on itseelf. A) Comminuted Fracture. B) Colles Fracture. C) Osteoporatic Hip Fracture. D) Compression Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compression Fracture. 27. Bones are held together at the joint by special tissues called ..... A) Cartilage. B) Ligaments. C) Femur. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ligaments. 28. The inner, thicker bone of the lower leg. A) Radius. B) Tibia. C) Neck bone. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tibia. 29. Where are spongy bones found in long bones? A) At the end. B) In the air. C) On the surface. D) In the middle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) At the end. 30. What do you call the two forearm bones? A) Tibia and Fibula. B) Femur and Patella. C) Ulna and Radius. D) Humerus and Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ulna and Radius. 31. The bones in the spine are called ..... A) Vertebrae. B) Ribs. C) Little bones. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vertebrae. 32. The function of the matrix is to provide the bone with ..... A) Flexibility. B) Resilience. C) Porousness. D) Strength. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flexibility. 33. Which system protects the heart and lungs? A) Skeletal. B) Muscular. C) Endocrine. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal. 34. What is bone remodeling? A) A process in which osteoclasts resorb bone and osteoblasts deposit bone. B) A process in which osteoblasts resorb bone and osteoclasts deposit bone. C) A process in which osteoclasts both resorb and deposit bone. D) A process in which osteoblasts both resorb and deposit bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A process in which osteoclasts resorb bone and osteoblasts deposit bone. 35. What is the human skeleton divided into? A) Proximal and distal. B) Superior and inferior. C) Axial and Appendicular. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Axial and Appendicular. 36. This is the hardest working muscle in our human body. A) Eye muscle. B) Cardiac muscle. C) Voluntary muscles. D) Muscles in the hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cardiac muscle. 37. A bone is considered A) A cell. B) A system. C) An organism. D) An organ. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An organ. 38. One of the main functions of the skeletal system is to ..... A) Break down food into nutrients. B) Take air into and out of the body. C) Protect our organs. D) Carries oxygen to our cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protect our organs. 39. Your bones are alive. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 40. The patella is commonly known as your knee cap. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 41. The long shaft of a bone is called the: A) Endosteum. B) Epiphysis. C) Diaphysis. D) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diaphysis. 42. A disease caused by calcium and vitamin D deficiency. A) Osteoporosis. B) Scoliosis. C) Kyphosis. D) Rickets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rickets. 43. Which of following answer choices is NOT a movable joint? A) Skull Bones. B) Knee Joint. C) Shoulder Joint. D) Elbow Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skull Bones. 44. What are the two categories of skeletal joints? A) Moveable & Immoveable. B) Moveable & Skeletal. C) Cardiac & Smooth. D) Skeletal & Immoveable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Moveable & Immoveable. 45. A blood clot that forms within 6-8 hours after a bone breaks, due to broken blood vessels. A) Fracture hematoma. B) Cartilage hematoma. C) Bony callous. D) Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fracture hematoma. 46. In which kind of bone fracture does the bone break and protrude through the skin? A) Simple. B) Stress. C) Compound. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compound. 47. How many bones are in the average infants body A) 55. B) 189. C) 350. D) 780. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 350. 48. The vertebrae are attached to each other by A) Muscles. B) Flesh. C) Ligaments. D) Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ligaments. 49. Bones are connected to Muscles A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 50. The joint in which bones slip over other bones, allowing free movement. A) Ball and socket joint. B) Hinge joint. C) Pivot joint. D) Gliding joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gliding joint. 51. What famous person has scoliosis? A) Serena Williams. B) Usain Bolt. C) Donald J. Trump. D) Selena Gomez. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Usain Bolt. 52. ..... is an exaggerated lateral ( side to side) curve of the spine A) Hyperkyphosis. B) Hyperlordosis. C) Scoliosis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scoliosis. 53. Which of the following bones is part of the appendicular system? A) Skull. B) Femur. C) Sternum. D) Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Femur. 54. How many bones do you have now and as an adult? A) 205. B) 800. C) 206. D) 300. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 206. 55. Vitamin D is also needed for bone growth and bone remodeling by osteoblasts and osteoclasts A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 56. It is where two or more bones meet and allows the skeleton move. A) Tendons. B) Joints. C) Cartilages. D) Ligaments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joints. 57. Two bones in the lower arm A) Shoulder, radius. B) Ulna, fall. C) Radius, ulna. D) Ray, buckle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radius, ulna. 58. Joint allows bones move forward and backward. A) HINGE JOINTS. B) BALL-AND-SOCKET JOINT. C) SADDLE JOINT. D) PIVOT JOINT. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) SADDLE JOINT. 59. Which of the following is the correct classification of the wrist bones? A) Sesamoid. B) Short. C) Irregular. D) Flat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short. 60. What are the two basic regions of the long bone? A) Cartilage and red blood marrow. B) Top and bottom. C) Medullary cavity and spongy bone. D) Diaphysis and epiphysis. 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