This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 144 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 144 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What type of bone is located at the epiphysis of a long bone? A) Cortical bone. B) No bone present (its hollow). C) Compact bone. D) Spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spongy bone. 2. What is the job of an osteoblast cell? A) Create new bone tissue. B) Break down and recycle old bone tissue. C) Living bone cell that performs normal cell functions. D) Creates new blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Create new bone tissue. 3. James, Evelyn, and Abigail are playing a trivia game about the human body. They come across a question:How many fused vertebrae are found in the sacrum? A) 5. B) 2. C) 4. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 5. 4. Tiny, hairlike canals, that transport blood, nutrients and wastes, connecting lacunae to each other and to the Haversian canal A) Lacunae. B) Volkmann's Canal. C) Concentric Lamella. D) Osteon. E) Channels. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Channels. 5. What is the red structure? A) Greater trochanter. B) Gluteal tuberosity. C) Head. D) Top. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Head. 6. What is the medical term for straight? A) Orth/o. B) Metacarp/o. C) Medull/o. D) Myel/o. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Orth/o. 7. The top two vertebrae in the spinal column are considered this type of joint. A) Pivot. B) Ball-and-socket. C) Hinge. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pivot. 8. What are the bones that make up the fingers of the hand and the toes of the foot? A) Carpals. B) Vertebrae. C) Phalanges. D) Tarsals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phalanges. 9. What is an Organ? A) An independent structure that does not have a job. B) A body system of all the muscles of the body that allow movement when they contract, or shorten. C) A body system that is the framework of bones that supports an organism's body, protects its organs, and allows the body to move. D) An independent structure that carries out a specific job for the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An independent structure that carries out a specific job for the body. 10. The vertebrae protects the heart and lungs. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 11. This type of joint allows movement in an open and close motion A) Hinge. B) Immoveable. C) Ball and socket. D) Pivot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinge. 12. Soft, jelly-like center of bones. A) Cancellous bone. B) Marrow. C) Periosteum. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marrow. 13. How many chest compressions do you give for CPR? A) 10. B) 20. C) 30. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 30. 14. What type of cell breaks down bone cells? A) Osteocyte. B) Osteoblast. C) Osteoclast. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoclast. 15. Fred was running a race and fell down. He tried to break his fall and put his arms out and broke his arm. What type of fracture is this? A) Comminuted. B) Spiral. C) Open. D) Impacted. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Impacted. 16. Synarthroses is the medical term for a ..... joint. (page 138) A) Fibrous. B) Synovial. C) Cartilaginous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fibrous. 17. What are smooth muscles? A) Muscles that surround organs, no control of (involuntary). B) Your funny bone. C) Tissue that connects muscles to other muscles. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muscles that surround organs, no control of (involuntary). 18. In adults, which of the following is filled with yellow marrow? A) Periosteum. B) Compact bone. C) Medullary cavity. D) Spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medullary cavity. 19. Which describes a loss in bone density over time? A) Osteoporosis. B) Osteosarcoma. C) Osteocyte. D) Osteomeningitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis. 20. Which exercise best demonstrates the movement of abduction? A) Bending of the elbow joint. B) Lifting the toes off the floor. C) Twisting the trunk form side to side. D) Performing a lateral leg lift. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Performing a lateral leg lift. 21. Hinge func and movement A) Baby shark doo do. B) 🤷♀️🤡 IM SO FUNNY🙈. C) Allows sliding or twistingmovements.Movements:sliding and twisting. Example:intercarpal and intertarsaljoints. D) Allows for bending andstraightening motionsalong a single plane.Movements:Flexion and extension. Example:elbow and knee joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allows for bending andstraightening motionsalong a single plane.Movements:Flexion and extension. Example:elbow and knee joints. 22. What is considered the bone breaker A) Calcium. B) Osteoblast. C) Osteoclast. D) Greenstick. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoclast. 23. Blood cells differentiate from stem cells in the Red Bone Marrow called: A) Hematopoietic Stem Cells. B) Hematotic Stem Cells. C) Hemastatic Stem Cells. D) Hematodynamic Stem Cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hematopoietic Stem Cells. 24. The portion of the living skin that supports the nail plate as it grows toward the free edge is called the ..... A) Cuticle. B) Matrix. C) Ligament. D) Nail bed. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nail bed. 25. What is an incomplete break, does not break in 2 pieces? A) Osteoporosis. B) Comminuted Fracture. C) Transverse Fracture. D) Hairline Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hairline Fracture. 26. A cord of dense tissue that connects a muscle to bone is A) Tendon. B) Ligament. C) Fibre. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tendon. 27. Your knee is an example of a ..... joint. A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Saddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge. 28. The vertebra is an irregular bone. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 29. The skeletal system protects ..... A) Rib. B) Hair. C) Blood. D) Internal Organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Internal Organs. 30. In children, what is found in the medullary cavity? A) Fat storage. B) Red bone marrow. C) Lysosomes. D) Yellow bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red bone marrow. 31. How many false ribs are there? A) 7. B) 12. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 32. Which defect fails to close the spinal canal around the spinal cord? A) Spondylolisthesis. B) Paget's disease. C) Spina bifida. D) Arthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spina bifida. 33. Which system Excretes waste A) Outgrowths. B) Skeletal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Outgrowths. 34. To bend the arm, ..... A) The biceps contracts and the triceps relaxes. B) The biceps and the triceps relax. C) The biceps and the triceps contract. D) The biceps relaxes and the triceps contracts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The biceps contracts and the triceps relaxes. 35. Which of the following are proteins? A) Strawberries. B) Arugula. C) Beans, eggs, chicken. D) Tortilla. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Beans, eggs, chicken. 36. Part of the pectoral girdle, it's the only long bone that lies horizontally A) Clavicle. B) Scapula. C) Humerus. D) Vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clavicle. 37. A fused rib cage helps to resist twisting and bending during flight A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 38. Both compact and spongy bone contain rings of matrix called ..... A) Lacunae. B) Beams. C) Lamellae. D) Canals. E) Osteons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lamellae. 39. Bone is broken completely in half, but ends do not penetrate the skin A) Simple/closed fx. B) Comminuted fx. C) Compound/open fx. D) Greenstick fx. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Simple/closed fx. 40. What makes up most of the bone matrix A) Sodium Chloride. B) Calcium Phosphate. C) Strontium. D) Lead. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calcium Phosphate. 41. What system is made up of all the bones in the body? A) The muscular system. B) The skeletal system. C) The lymphatic system. D) The cardiovascular system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The skeletal system. 42. This is the shaft of the bone A) Diaphysis. B) Bone Marrow. C) Epiphysis. D) Medullary Cavity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diaphysis. 43. Bones in the wrist, ankle, and knee are all examples of A) Long bones. B) Irregular bones. C) Short bones. D) Flat bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Short bones. 44. Type of arthritis that occurs when cartilage at the ends of bones wears down A) Rheumatoid Arthritis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Osteopenia. D) Osteoarthritis. E) Rickets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteoarthritis. 45. The medullary cavity A) Strong membrane covering bone . B) Contains yellow bone marrow. C) End of long bones. D) Shaft, hollow tube made of compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contains yellow bone marrow. 46. True or False:Without our bones, we could still move around as we do now. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 47. The purpose of the rib cage is to ..... A) Protect the stomach. B) Protect the spinal cord. C) Protect the heart and lungs. D) Provide an object to which the lungs can attach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protect the heart and lungs. 48. What is an opening in a skull that allows nerves and blood vessels to come through? A) Foramen. B) Process. C) Fontanel. D) Suture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foramen. 49. How many thoracic vertebrae are in the thoracic cage? A) 5. B) 24. C) 12. D) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 12. 50. Which of the following type of joint allows movement in many direction? A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge joint. C) Pivot joint. D) Gliding Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball and socket. 51. What type of bones are found in the vertebral column? A) Short bones. B) Irregular bones. C) Long bones. D) Flat bones. E) Sesamoid bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irregular bones. 52. The type of bone that makes up most of the appendicular skeleton is: A) Irregular bone. B) Long bone. C) Sesamoid bone. D) Flat bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long bone. 53. Which of the following is NOT a classification of skeletal bone? A) Long. B) Short. C) Irregular. D) Square. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Square. 54. The human body consists of how many bones? A) 306. B) 206. C) 106. D) 406. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 55. We can survive without our Skeletal System. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 56. The most common type of arthritis; associated with aging and "wear and tear" of the articular cartilage. A) Osteoarthritis. B) Sarcopenia. C) Arthroplasty. D) Flexion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoarthritis. 57. The bones of the upper jaw are called ..... A) Cheeks. B) Nasal. C) Mandible. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cheeks. 58. The bone disease mostly happened in elder women which have deficiency of calcium is called ..... A) Polio. B) Osteoporosis. C) Rickets. D) Rheumatism. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoporosis. 59. Bone matrix synthesis is called ..... A) Reversal. B) Mineralization. C) Quiescence. D) Resorption. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mineralization. 60. This is present at the end of a bone and acts as a cushion. A) Ligament. B) Bone marrow. C) Cartilage. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilage. ← 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