This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 140 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 140 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Ribs are connected by flexible tissue that enables them expand. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 2. Which of the following is responsible for new bone cell growth? A) Osteoblast. B) Osteocyte. C) Osteoclasts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoblast. 3. The ends of a long bone that enclose spongy bone and is covered by articular cartilage is the ..... A) Epiphyseal plate. B) Epiphyses. C) Diaphysis. D) Epiphyseal line. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epiphyses. 4. The vastus lateralis, intermedius and medialis all have their origin on the A) Fibular. B) Humerus. C) Femur. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Femur. 5. What do you drink to keep your bones strong? A) Apple j. B) Water. C) Milk. D) Soda. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Milk. 6. Which type of bone marrow produces fat cells, cartilage, and bone? A) Yellow Marrow. B) Red Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yellow Marrow. 7. The xiphoid process is located on the bottom tip of ..... A) The vertebral column. B) Sacred. C) Sternum. D) Phalanges. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sternum. 8. The production of red and white blood cells in the bone marrow is called hematopoiesis. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 9. What kind of bone cell responsible by initiating calcification process of bone? A) Osteoprogenitor cell. B) Osteoblast. C) Osteoclast. D) Osteocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoblast. 10. An ..... is a type of bone cell that dissolves bone. A) Osteoblast. B) Osteoclast. C) Osteocyte. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoclast. 11. How does the skeletal system protect vital organs? A) By using the circulatory system to protect them. B) By surrounding them with bones. C) By using muscles to shield them. D) By creating a force field around them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) By surrounding them with bones. 12. A muscle that extends at a joint. A) Flexor. B) Tendon. C) Clavicle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flexor. 13. How many cartilages are there in new born baby? A) 300. B) 200. C) 100. D) 50. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 300. 14. The term "medial" refers to a position on the body that is A) Closer to the midline. B) Farther away from the midline. C) Farther away from the midaxillary line. D) Closer to the midaxillary line. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Closer to the midline. 15. TRUE or FALSE:Bones are living tissue. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. Which of the following terms best matches the following function of the skeletal system: "The skeletal system provides protection for the body's internal organs." A) Support. B) Protection. C) Movement. D) Fat and Mineral Storage. E) Blood Cell Production. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protection. 17. From the limited (slightly) movable joints is (are) ..... A) Wrist, hip. B) Knee, elbow. C) Skull. D) Shoulder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Knee, elbow. 18. What is the name of the knee cap? A) Patella. B) Ulna. C) Carpals. D) Radius. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Patella. 19. The skull, also called the cranium, protects what organ? A) Lungs. B) Stomach. C) Brain. D) Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain. 20. In the top of the skull, bones are A) Dissolved. B) Fused together. C) Stayed separate. D) Broken apart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fused together. 21. An organism with a backbone. Fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds, and mammals, including humans, are all? A) Animals. B) Vertebrae. C) Mammals. D) Invertebrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vertebrae. 22. Cartilagenous joints, like in between vertebrae, are classified as this type of joint A) Synarthrotic. B) Amphiarthrotic. C) Diarthrotic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Amphiarthrotic. 23. A bone disease that is a result of too much calcium loss and not enough replacement is ..... A) Osteoporosis. B) Scoliosis. C) Rickett's. D) Rheumatoid arthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis. 24. ..... is/are examples of involuntary muscles, A) Heart beating. B) Intestines moving food. C) Stomach churning. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 25. The bones of the fingers and toes. A) Phalanges. B) Metacarpals. C) Tarsals. D) Metatarsals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phalanges. 26. Which type of marrow produces red and white blood cells and platelets? A) Yellow Marrow. B) Pink Marrow. C) Red Marrow. D) White Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red Marrow. 27. Mature male horse, used for breeding A) Mare. B) Colt. C) Stallion. D) Foal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Stallion. 28. A fractured bone is healed by both blood and bones cells. What type of stimulus is this? A) Internal. B) External. C) Both internal & external. D) Neither internal nor external. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) External. 29. Cartilaginous joints contain..... A) Cartilage. B) Dense CT. C) Epithelial tissue. D) Loose CT. E) A fluid filled cavity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 30. How many muscles are there in the human muscular system? A) 500. B) 600. C) 400. D) 550. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 600. 31. Stores fat that can serve as an energy reserve. A) White marrow. B) Yellow marrow. C) Red marrow. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yellow marrow. 32. ..... joint is found in elbows and knees A) Pivot. B) Hinge. C) Gliding. D) None. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge. 33. Adults have this many bones A) 220. B) 260. C) 206. D) 202. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 206. 34. What type of bone are your vertabraes? A) Long. B) Irregular. C) Short. D) Flat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irregular. 35. Joints are areas where two or more bones join together A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 36. What is the name of the joint that allows little or no movement? A) Ball-and-socket. B) Hinge. C) Fixed. D) Pivot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fixed. 37. A bone fracture that fragments the bone A) Comminuted. B) Closed. C) Compound. D) Fissured. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comminuted. 38. Tendons connect bones to ..... A) Bones. B) Muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muscle. 39. What another word for clavicle? A) Chest. B) Collar bone. C) Skull. D) Legs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Collar bone. 40. AJ, Michael, and Anabel are playing a trivia game. They come across a question:What is a vertebrae? A) Like verbs, they are action words. B) The smaller bones in the spinal column. C) The small bones in your leg. D) One of your organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The smaller bones in the spinal column. 41. Finger and toe bones A) Ribs. B) Metatarsals. C) Phalanges. D) Metacarpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phalanges. 42. This is the bones of the nasal cavity and lower eye orbits A) Ethmoid. B) Parietal. C) Sphenoid. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ethmoid. 43. What do you call a long bone in the upper arm? A) Scapula. B) Radius. C) Ulna. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humerus. 44. A 64 y/o woman was brought in to the emergency room with a broken hip after falling. What is the most likely cause of her injury? A) Osteoporosis. B) Scoliosis. C) Too much vitamin D. D) Too much calcium in the bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis. 45. What is the main protein found in human bones? A) Minerals. B) Calcium Phosphate. C) Collagen. D) Calcium Carbonate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collagen. 46. Alia's doctor told her she had a skeletal disorder that has fluid-filled sac in her hips what is the disorder A) Osteoarthritis. B) Rheumatoid arthritis. C) Bursitis. D) Sprain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bursitis. 47. Degenerative disorder causing abnormal spine structure A) Arthralgia. B) Gout. C) Bursitis. D) Spondylosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spondylosis. 48. What connective tissue joins muscle to bone A) Cartilage. B) Ligament. C) Tendon. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tendon. 49. The frame work of bones that gives support to our body is called the A) Cartilage. B) Skeleton. C) Muscles. D) Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skeleton. 50. Tough fibrous tissue that lines the outside of the bone A) Periosteum. B) Endosteum. C) Exoskeleton. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Periosteum. 51. Cartilage tissue breaks down and disappears while bony tissue begins to form A) Step 2 of Endochondral Ossification. B) Step 5 of Endochondral Ossification. C) Step 3 of Endochondral Ossification. D) Step 1 of Endochondral ossification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Step 2 of Endochondral Ossification. 52. Axial skeleton includes all except A) The skull. B) Ribs. C) Hips. D) Vertebral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hips. 53. Inflammation of the cartilage that connects the ribs to the sternum A) Hallux valgus. B) Costochondritis. C) Arthritis. D) Synovitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Costochondritis. 54. These are the bones of the wrist. A) Tarsals. B) Phalanges. C) Mandible. D) Carpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carpals. 55. Commonly occurs to vertebrates, have a framework of bones and cartilage, sometimes mineralized, that serves as a point of attachment for muscle. This would assist movement, give structure and support as well as protection. A) Hydrostatic Skeleton. B) Endoskeleton. C) Exoskeleton. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Endoskeleton. 56. All bones in the body is capable of moving. A) FALSE. B) TRUE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) FALSE. 57. What mineral makes bone strong? A) Calcium. B) Vitamins. C) Oxygen. D) Iron. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calcium. 58. These bones are found in the spinal column and some of the bones in the skull. A) Flat. B) Irregular. C) Short. D) Long. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irregular. 59. Small round bone that is embedded within a tendon, whose purpose is to reinforce and decrease stress on that tendon. A) Sesamoid. B) Flat. C) Long. D) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sesamoid. 60. A center point that can be rotated A) Actin. B) Axis. C) Contract. D) Myosin. 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