This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 14 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 14 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What % of your bodies blood cells are made in your bone marrow? A) 95%. B) 90%. C) 80%. D) 85%. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 95%. 2. Which of these is the smallest bone in the body? A) Sternum. B) Humerus. C) Femur. D) Stapes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stapes. 3. What part of the skeletal system is this? A) Ribs. B) Scapula. C) Spine. D) Sternum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sternum. 4. A fracture in the shaft of a bone would be a break in the A) Diaphysis. B) Articular cartilage. C) Perichondrium. D) Epiphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diaphysis. 5. What is the periosteum? A) A rough layer of tissue around the bone. B) Something that holds ligaments to tendons. C) The marrow in the bone. D) A tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A rough layer of tissue around the bone. 6. Bones contain a soft tissue called A) Fat. B) Marrow. C) Cells. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marrow. 7. What type of bone is longer than it is wide? A) Short bones. B) Irregular bones. C) Flat bones. D) Long bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Long bones. 8. The ..... part of the skeleton contains ..... bones A) Appendix/50. B) Axial/80. C) Bottom/126. D) Appendicular/100. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axial/80. 9. Canals that run perpendicular to the Haversian canals in compact bone: A) Lacunae. B) Canaliculi. C) Wolff's. D) Volkman's. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Volkman's. 10. These hold muscles to the bone. A) Tendons. B) Ribs. C) Nerves. D) Joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tendons. 11. What is one of the primary functions of the skeletal system? A) Generates heat for the body. B) Gives the body support and shape. C) Filters waste from the blood. D) Regulates body temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gives the body support and shape. 12. Where could we find joints on our body A) Under our lungs. B) Joints are all around our body-they provide flexibility and allow the skeletal system to move. C) The skeletal system. D) Our hip through our waist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The skeletal system. 13. The chamber where the osteocyte is found in the osteon A) Central canal. B) Lacunae. C) Lamella. D) Canaliculi. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lacunae. 14. What is bone marrow? A) The outer protection of a bone. B) A hard tissue found inside some bones. C) The name of a bone found in our body. D) A soft spongy tissue found inside some bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A soft spongy tissue found inside some bones. 15. The 2 bones in the head that form the sides of the head and the top of the cranium are called: A) Cranium. B) Temporal bones. C) Parietal bones. D) Frontal bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parietal bones. 16. Which part of the skeletal system holds bones together and keeps them in place? A) Tendon. B) Ligament. C) Cartilage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ligament. 17. An example of a long bone within the human skeleton is: A) Carpals. B) Scapula. C) Humerous. D) Vertebra. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humerous. 18. The soft connective tissue found in spaces in the bone is the ..... A) Cartilage. B) Ligament. C) Tendon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 19. The framework of bones in our body is called the A) Frame. B) Skeleton. C) Skull. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skeleton. 20. Which of the following is part of the axial skeleton? A) Foot bones. B) Thigh bone. C) Vertebral column. D) Shoulder bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vertebral column. 21. This disease translates to "pourous bone" which is weak, thin and easily breakable bone. A) Osteoporosis. B) Hyper kyphosis. C) Ankylosing spondylitis. D) Scoliosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis. 22. The bones are connected by ..... A) Arteries and veins. B) Nerves. C) Capillaries. D) Cartilage and muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage and muscle. 23. How many bones are there in the average person's body? A) 33. B) 206. C) 639. D) 750. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 24. A baby has about 300 soft bones. An adult has 206 bones. What happens? A) Babies digest their extra bones as they grow. B) Adults lose bones when they stop drinking milk. C) Some of the babies' soft bones slowly grow together. D) Babies have lots of broken bones that need to heal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Some of the babies' soft bones slowly grow together. 25. What vital, soft organ does the skull protect? A) Heart. B) Ear. C) Brain. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain. 26. An adult has more bones than a child A) False. B) True. C) They have the same number of bones. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 27. What type of joint is fused, no movement? A) Fibrous. B) Synovial. C) Cartilaginous. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fibrous. 28. Find the correct spelling: A) Cranium. B) Crainium. C) Skull. D) Craniom. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cranium. 29. Teeth are part of the skeletal system. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 30. I am made with milk ..... What am I? A) Dairy. B) Cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dairy. 31. What does the vertebrae protect? A) Brain. B) Spinal Cord. C) Heart. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spinal Cord. 32. Which layer of bone are haversian systems found in? A) Spongy bone. B) Periosteum. C) Bone marrow. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compact bone. 33. ..... is where two bones are connected in the human body A) Tendon. B) Bone connection. C) Joint. D) Ligament. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joint. 34. Which one is the collabones? A) Sternum. B) Radius. C) Scapula. D) Clavicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clavicle. 35. All organ systems together make up an ..... A) Organism. B) Organs. C) Organ systems. D) Cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organism. 36. Bone destroying cells: A) Osteoclasts. B) Osteocytes. C) Osteomasts. D) Osteoblasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoclasts. 37. The skeletal system allows for ..... This is why you can run and jump. A) Protection. B) Mineralization. C) Movement. D) Support. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Movement. 38. Ligaments attach ..... at joints A) Bone to bone. B) Bone to muscle. C) Muscle to muscle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bone to bone. 39. This type of joint allows for rotating movements like your shoulder can do A) Hinge. B) Ball and Socket. C) Pivot. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ball and Socket. 40. How are joints held together? A) Muscles. B) Cartilage. C) Ligaments. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ligaments. 41. Calcium makes bones stronger. A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 42. The hard part of your bone is called ..... A) Spongy bone. B) Marrow. C) Compact bone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compact bone. 43. Muscles are attached to bones by ..... A) Cartilage. B) Ligaments. C) Axons. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tendons. 44. Microscopic channels between the lacunae of ossified bone that carry nutrients to osteocytes are known as: A) Osteons. B) Haverisan canals. C) Canaliculi. D) Volksmann's canals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canaliculi. 45. What type of muscle is in the heart? A) Smooth. B) Skeletal. C) Cardiac. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cardiac. 46. Which bone is located in your foot? A) Fibula. B) Talus. C) Tibia. D) Radius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Talus. 47. 6) What is the green bone called? Also known as the chest bone? A) Sternum. B) Clavicle. C) Ribs. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sternum. 48. What type of connective tissue a connects muscle tissue to bone? A) Tendon. B) LIgament. C) Cartilage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tendon. 49. The section of the long bone that contains the medullary canal. A) Endosteum. B) Epiphysis. C) Periosteum. D) Diaphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diaphysis. 50. What type of muscle is found in your stomach, bladder, and kidneys? A) Straight. B) Skeletal. C) Smooth. D) Cardiac. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smooth. 51. Ligaments connect A) Bone to bone. B) Muscle to bone. C) Muscle to muscle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bone to bone. 52. This type of joint is in our neck and can move up and down and side to side? A) Hinge. B) Pivot. C) Ball and socket. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ball and socket. 53. It protects the brain A) Sockets. B) Skull. C) Lower jaw bone. D) Rib cage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skull. 54. Body systems are defined as A) Different types of tissue. B) Groups of organs working together. C) Same types of tissue working together. D) Groups of cells working together. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Groups of organs working together. 55. This bone is hollow and made up of many discs, put one over the other. A) Rib cage. B) Backbone. C) Throat. D) Hand. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Backbone. 56. Cells are the tiniest living part of the human body. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 57. Having brittle and porous bones is known as A) Osteoarthritis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Dislocation. D) Strain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoporosis. 58. Which group has epiphyseal lines? A) Adults. B) Children. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adults. 59. The 26 bones that make up the spinal column. A) Radio. B) Phalanges. C) Vertebrae. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vertebrae. 60. What bone disorder is a chronic progressive disease that causes inflammation in the joints? A) Rheumatoid arthritis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Osteomyelitis. D) Osteoarthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rheumatoid arthritis. ← 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