This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 136 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 136 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The disease where over time, more minerals are taken out of bones than put back in A) Osteoporosis. B) Arthritis. C) Rickets. D) Osteosarcoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis. 2. How many bones are in total in the human body A) 300. B) 206. C) 100. D) 210. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 3. What type of bones protect most organs? A) Short bones. B) Flat bones. C) Irregular bones. D) Long bones. E) Sesamoid bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat bones. 4. Which joint allows bones to move back and forth in a single direction? A) Ball and Socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge. 5. What tissue is found inside the pores of spongy bone, and functions to form new blood cells? A) Spongy bone. B) Bone marrow. C) Cartilage. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bone marrow. 6. Humerus attached proximally to ..... and distally to ulna and radius. A) Harpals. B) Ribs. C) Clavicle. D) Scapula. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scapula. 7. What is the space between bones called? A) Ligament. B) Joint. C) Muscle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joint. 8. What are fibrious cords that connect muscle to bone? A) Tendon. B) Ligament. C) Long Bone. D) Transverse. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tendon. 9. The production within the body means what? A) When it helps you get rid of wastes in your body. B) When it shapes your body. C) When bones produce blood cells. D) When it protects the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) When bones produce blood cells. 10. Blood Cell formation occurs here A) Yellow marrow. B) Red marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red marrow. 11. How many bones are there in our backbone or vertebral coloumn? A) 23. B) 43. C) 34. D) 33. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 33. 12. Which muscles work in pairs to allow movement at the elbow? A) Bicep and tricep. B) Bicep and deltoid. C) Pectoralis major and tricep. D) Trapezius and tricep. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bicep and tricep. 13. One muscle ..... and the other ..... A) Works, works harder. B) Works, relaxes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Works, relaxes. 14. What are the major structures of the skeletal system? A) Muscles, Bones, and Skin. B) Bones, Joints, and Cartilage. C) Bones, Nerves, and Blood Vessels. D) Joints, Ligaments, and Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bones, Joints, and Cartilage. 15. What is the purpose of the bones that make up your skeleton? A) Bones give your body shape, help you move, and protect soft areas of your body. B) Bones help you digest food, keep you from getting a sunburn, and keep germs from getting in your ear. C) Bones give you good looks, protects your eyes from dust, and makes you smarter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bones give your body shape, help you move, and protect soft areas of your body. 16. Which of the following are types of synovial joints? A) Sutures, gomphoses, and syndesmoses. B) Synchondroses and symphyses. C) Pivot, hinge, condyloid, saddle, plane, and ball & socket. D) Synarthroses, amphiarthroses, and diarthroses. E) Fibrous and cartilaginous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pivot, hinge, condyloid, saddle, plane, and ball & socket. 17. Julia, Maylani, and Sophia are playing a trivia game. They come across a question:Which system in our body is responsible for providing support and protection to our organs? A) Skeletal system. B) Nervous system. C) Muscular system. D) Digestive system. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal system. 18. A total knee replacement is abbreviated as: A) TKR. B) TKA. C) THA. D) ORIF. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TKR. 19. What do you call a soft tissue bone found in the nose, ears and joints? A) Compact bone. B) Bone marrow. C) Cartilage. D) Spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilage. 20. There are about ..... sweat glands in the skin. A) 300, 000. B) 30, 000. C) 3, 000. D) 3, 000, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3, 000, 000. 21. Allows bones to resist breaking when stretched A) Osteoblasts, osteocytes, and osteoclasts. B) Collagens and other proteins. C) Calcium and phosphate minerals. D) Red bone marrow. E) Yellow bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Collagens and other proteins. 22. What is the longest bone of the upper arm? A) Humerus. B) Axial Skeleton. C) Femur. D) Endosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humerus. 23. This part of the body protects your heart and lungs. A) Brain. B) Ribs. C) Pelvis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ribs. 24. Bones can store minerals for the body A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 25. ..... is the inner framework of the body made of bones and cartilage? A) Flesh. B) Muscle. C) Skeleton. D) Face. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeleton. 26. The term phalanges refer to the bones of the ..... A) Fingers. B) Toes. C) Fingers and toes. D) Hands and feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fingers and toes. 27. What are the structures/organs of the Muscular System? A) Bones, cartilage, ligaments, joints. B) Skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, oil glands. C) Skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, cardiac muscle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, cardiac muscle. 28. Dark bands are also called ..... bands. A) I. B) Myosin. C) Actin. D) A. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. 29. What are the functions of the red bone marrow? A) Produces red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. B) Produces only platelets. C) Produces only plasma. D) Produces only red blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Produces red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. 30. According to the 'all or nothing principle' once nerve impulse reaches the required threshold what occurs at once? A) A build up of contractions. B) All contractions. C) Small contractions. D) Large contractions. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) All contractions. 31. The central opening in the osteon that carries blood vessels and nerves is referred to as the ..... A) Haversian canal. B) Lamellae. C) Lacunae. D) Volkmann's channel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Haversian canal. 32. Definition:Chest bone A) Sternum. B) Clavicle. C) Ribs. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sternum. 33. A major job of the skeletal system is to: A) Support the body. B) Protect the organs. C) Provide red blood cells in marrow. D) All of these choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these choices. 34. Imagine Michael, Mia, and Nora are playing a game of 'Doctor Doctor'. They are discussing various injuries and diseases related to the skeletal system. Which one of the following options that Michael suggests is NOT an injury or disease of the skeletal system? A) Stroke. B) Osteoporosis. C) Sprain. D) Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stroke. 35. What is outer dense part of bone? A) Spongy bone. B) Compact bone. C) Cartilage. D) Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compact bone. 36. Which of the following means mature bone cells? A) Osteoclasts. B) Osteoblasts. C) Osteology. D) Osteocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteocytes. 37. Your muscles pull on your bones to cause ..... A) Sound. B) Movement. C) Homeostasis. D) Pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Movement. 38. What is it called when your bones are brittle and porous bones caused by long-term deficiencies of calcium, vitamin D and lack of exercise? A) Osteoporosis. B) Scoliosis. C) Arthritis. D) Osteomyelitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis. 39. The largest and strongest bone of the face is the ..... A) Cheeks. B) Nasal. C) Mandible. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mandible. 40. The wrist is a ..... joint. A) Hinge. B) Ball and socket. C) Pivot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pivot. 41. The finger bone closest to the wrist is the A) Distal phalanx. B) Proximal phalanx. C) Metacarpals. D) Middle phalanx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Proximal phalanx. 42. Ball and socket joints allows movement in back and forth only A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 43. What are the main organs of the skeletal system? A) Bones and muscles. B) Bones and joints. C) Muscles and joints. D) Ligaments and tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bones and joints. 44. Bones are living organs! A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 45. What is the name of the jelly-like substance in your bones? A) Marrow. B) Hollow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marrow. 46. Which of the following bones is the shoulder blade? A) Clavicle. B) Scapula. C) Carpal. D) Fibula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scapula. 47. Where is the coccyx located? A) Covering the knee. B) Beneath the eye sockets. C) At the shoulder joint. D) At the tailbone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At the tailbone. 48. A muscle which is not under an individual's control A) Voluntary muscle. B) Cardiac Muscle. C) Involuntary muscle. D) Non-voluntary muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Involuntary muscle. 49. What bone is a common source for bone marrow transplant donations? A) Rib. B) Sternum. C) Cranium. D) Pelvis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pelvis. 50. The smooth flexible layer of tissue covering the ends of bone is ..... A) Compact bone. B) Spongy bone. C) Periosteum. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 51. The sternum is part of the: A) Appendicular skeleton. B) Axial skeleton. C) Pelvic girdle. D) Pectoral girdle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axial skeleton. 52. The adult body normally has 306 bones. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 53. Joint found between bones of wrist and ankle is ..... A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gliding. 54. There are how many movable and semi movable joints in our body? A) 230. B) 240. C) 229. D) 231. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 230. 55. Any bone is considered A) An organism. B) A cell. C) An organ. D) A system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An organ. 56. What category does the pelvis and vertebrae bones fall? A) Long. B) Irregular. C) Short. D) Flat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irregular. 57. What do our bones make inside our bodies? A) Blood. B) Oil. C) Air. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blood. 58. All flat bones which including the skull, mandible and clavicle. It is made of loose connective tissue with no cartilage stage A) Endochondral bone. B) Intramembranous bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Intramembranous bone. 59. What does the term 'Tibi(o/a)' refer to? A) Rib. B) Fat. C) Shin. D) Ankle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shin. 60. What type of bones are the bones of the limbs? A) Long bones. B) Flat bones. C) Short bones. D) Irregular bones. E) Sesamoid bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long bones. ← 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