Skeletal System Quiz 144 (60 MCQs)

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1. What type of bone is located at the epiphysis of a long bone?
2. What is the job of an osteoblast cell?
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?
4. Tiny, hairlike canals, that transport blood, nutrients and wastes, connecting lacunae to each other and to the Haversian canal
5. What is the red structure?
6. What is the medical term for straight?
7. The top two vertebrae in the spinal column are considered this type of joint.
8. What are the bones that make up the fingers of the hand and the toes of the foot?
9. What is an Organ?
10. The vertebrae protects the heart and lungs.
11. This type of joint allows movement in an open and close motion
12. Soft, jelly-like center of bones.
13. How many chest compressions do you give for CPR?
14. What type of cell breaks down bone cells?
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?
16. Synarthroses is the medical term for a ..... joint. (page 138)
17. What are smooth muscles?
18. In adults, which of the following is filled with yellow marrow?
19. Which describes a loss in bone density over time?
20. Which exercise best demonstrates the movement of abduction?
21. Hinge func and movement
22. What is considered the bone breaker
23. Blood cells differentiate from stem cells in the Red Bone Marrow called:
24. The portion of the living skin that supports the nail plate as it grows toward the free edge is called the .....
25. What is an incomplete break, does not break in 2 pieces?
26. A cord of dense tissue that connects a muscle to bone is
27. Your knee is an example of a ..... joint.
28. The vertebra is an irregular bone.
29. The skeletal system protects .....
30. In children, what is found in the medullary cavity?
31. How many false ribs are there?
32. Which defect fails to close the spinal canal around the spinal cord?
33. Which system Excretes waste
34. To bend the arm, .....
35. Which of the following are proteins?
36. Part of the pectoral girdle, it's the only long bone that lies horizontally
37. A fused rib cage helps to resist twisting and bending during flight
38. Both compact and spongy bone contain rings of matrix called .....
39. Bone is broken completely in half, but ends do not penetrate the skin
40. What makes up most of the bone matrix
41. What system is made up of all the bones in the body?
42. This is the shaft of the bone
43. Bones in the wrist, ankle, and knee are all examples of
44. Type of arthritis that occurs when cartilage at the ends of bones wears down
45. The medullary cavity
46. True or False:Without our bones, we could still move around as we do now.
47. The purpose of the rib cage is to .....
48. What is an opening in a skull that allows nerves and blood vessels to come through?
49. How many thoracic vertebrae are in the thoracic cage?
50. Which of the following type of joint allows movement in many direction?
51. What type of bones are found in the vertebral column?
52. The type of bone that makes up most of the appendicular skeleton is:
53. Which of the following is NOT a classification of skeletal bone?
54. The human body consists of how many bones?
55. We can survive without our Skeletal System.
56. The most common type of arthritis; associated with aging and "wear and tear" of the articular cartilage.
57. The bones of the upper jaw are called .....
58. The bone disease mostly happened in elder women which have deficiency of calcium is called .....
59. Bone matrix synthesis is called .....
60. This is present at the end of a bone and acts as a cushion.