This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System β Quiz 147 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 147 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This bone is known as your shoulder blade and helps move your shoulder A) Scapula. B) Sternum. C) Ulna. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scapula. 2. The name of the substances that make the skeleton of our body are A) Bones. B) Joints. C) Ligaments. D) Muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bones. 3. Skeletal muscles are attached to bones usually by tendons. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 4. What do you call the connective tissue that covers at the ends of the bones? A) Ligament. B) Joint. C) Tendon. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 5. The first curve of the spine; thinnest most delicate vertebrae in the spine; function to allow flexibility for the neck, to protect the spinal cord A) Thoracic vertebrae. B) Lumbar vertebrae. C) Vertebral foramen. D) Cervical vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cervical vertebrae. 6. Lighter and not as strong as compact bone. This typpe of bone is commonly found on the ends and inner portions of long bones. A) Spongy bone. B) Endosteum. C) Periosteum. D) Medullary cavity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spongy bone. 7. A baby has more bones at birth than an adult. Approximately how many more bones does a baby have? A) 9. B) 9000. C) 90. D) 900. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 90. 8. The ..... protects the brain, inner ears, and eyes. A) Bones. B) Skull. C) Ribs. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skull. 9. Lets your bones glide past one another in any direction on the flat surface of the joint A) Pivot joint. B) Gliding joint. C) Hinge joint. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gliding joint. 10. What is the air that remains after maximal expiration? A) Residual Extra. B) Residing Volume. C) Residual Volume. D) Residential Volume. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Residual Volume. 11. Another name for the wrist bones A) Carpals. B) Tarsals. C) Metacarpals. D) Patella. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carpals. 12. The two divisions of our skeleton are A) Axial and Proximal. B) Axial and Appendicular. C) Appendicular and Proximal. D) Upper and Lower. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axial and Appendicular. 13. Imagine Daniel, Abigail, and Scarlett are having a debate about human anatomy. Daniel says, 'Which of the following statements about ribs is NOT true?' A) 'Ribs are attached to the thoracic vertebrae, ' Daniel points out. B) 'Floating ribs are not attached to the sternum, ' Scarlett adds. C) 'Women have more ribs than men, ' Scarlett confidently states. D) 'False ribs are indirectly attached, ' argues Abigail. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 'Women have more ribs than men, ' Scarlett confidently states. 14. The bones of the wrist are called the A) Phalanges. B) Tarsals. C) Metacarpals. D) Carpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carpals. 15. A bone of the coxa is: A) The trochanter. B) The ilium. C) The clavicle. D) The coccyx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The ilium. 16. Slightly moveable A) Amphiarthrotic. B) Diarthrotic. C) Synarthrotic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amphiarthrotic. 17. Ends of long bones (filled with spongy bone) A) Diaphysis. B) Periosteum. C) Epiphysis. D) Medullary cavity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epiphysis. 18. Who has more bones in their body? A) Child. B) Adolescent. C) Adult. D) Infant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Infant. 19. Your friend broke his femur, which is the long bone in the upper thigh. To which skeleton does it belong? A) Axial skeleton. B) Appendicular skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appendicular skeleton. 20. A fracture in which the bone breaks diagonally. A) Fracture. B) Oblique Fracture. C) Horizontal Fracture. D) Diagonal Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oblique Fracture. 21. The ..... skeleton is made up of the front and hind limbs A) Appendicular. B) Axial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appendicular. 22. Which structure attaches bone to bone? A) Ligament. B) Bone. C) Cartilage. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ligament. 23. The smooth outermost layer of the bone A) Ligaments. B) Ball and socket joint. C) Compact bone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compact bone. 24. What is the end of a long bone? A) Epiphysis. B) Growth plate. C) Sharpey's fibers. D) Medullary cavity. E) Endosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epiphysis. 25. Point of attachment for bicep muscle A) Trochlear notch. B) Radial tuberosity. C) Deltoid tuberosity. D) Trochlea. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Radial tuberosity. 26. Articulation is the same as A) Long bone. B) Short bone. C) Joint. D) Irregular bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joint. 27. What is the shape of the vertebrae, hip, and some skull bones? A) Short. B) Irregular. C) Flat. D) Long. E) Sesamoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irregular. 28. Which of the following is a combining form that means bone? A) Spondyl/o. B) Chondr/o. C) Search. D) So that. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) So that. 29. Tiny holes in bone for blood vessels and nerves to enter A) Epiphysis. B) Medullary cavity. C) Yellow marrow. D) Nutrient foramen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nutrient foramen. 30. What are the two functions of the bone's marrow cavities? A) A. Movement and protection. B) Fat storage and blood cell formation. C) Support and protection. D) Support and movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fat storage and blood cell formation. 31. It is characterized by stiffness, inflammation, and pain. A) Headache. B) Toothache. C) Wound. D) Arthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arthritis. 32. The soft spots in a baby's skull are called a ..... and are made up of ..... A) Fontanel, cartilage. B) Sutures, cartilage. C) Sutures, bone. D) Fontanel, bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fontanel, cartilage. 33. Which bone is thickest? A) Tibula. B) Phibia. C) Fibula. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tibia. 34. What is the condition characterized by a decrease in bone mass and density, causing bones to become fragile? A) Osteoarthritis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Gout. D) Rheumatoid arthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoporosis. 35. Muscles can push. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 36. The tibia and fibula attach to a large bone in the foot called the ..... A) Clavicle. B) Talus. C) Ulna. D) Patella. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Talus. 37. Blood cells are produced inside the A) Arteries. B) Bones. C) Heart. D) Veins. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bones. 38. If wrong blood type will be given during transfusion, clot forms and blocks blood vessel. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 39. Why are red blood cells important for athletes? A) Produce energy. B) Fight infection. C) Transport nutrients. D) Carry oxygen to working muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carry oxygen to working muscles. 40. Mrs. Rivera thought it would be funny to wear one olive colored shoe and one gold colored shoe to school on Friday to support Dons school spirit. The olive shoe is on the ..... side of the body compared to the gold shoe: A) Bilateral. B) Unilateral. C) Contralateral. D) Ipsilateral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contralateral. 41. What is located at number 16? A) Tibia. B) Patella. C) Fibula. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fibula. 42. Which is NOT a part of the bone? A) Cancellous Bone (Spongey). B) Compact Bone (Hard). C) Bone Marrow. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ulna. 43. Where can you find the fused joints? A) In the skul. B) At the elbow or at the knee. C) In the skull. D) How can I know?. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the skull. 44. The connective tissue that connects bone to bone at joints is the ..... ? A) Muscle. B) Cartilage. C) Ligaments. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ligaments. 45. Number of bones in adult human body. A) 300. B) 100. C) 226. D) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 206. 46. BONUS QUESTION (3 points):What is the name of the important muscles of the neck that can be seen when a dancer is correctly executing Γ©paulment ("wet hair")? A) Serratus. B) Sternomastoid. C) Sartorius. D) Quadriceps. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sternomastoid. 47. Calcium that will eventually enter the muscle cell to bind with troponin is stored in the ..... A) Sarcoplasmic Reticulum of the Muscle Cell. B) T-Tubule of the Muscle Cell. C) The interstitial space outside the muscle cell near the pre-synaptic terminal. D) The Sarcolemma of the Muscle Cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sarcoplasmic Reticulum of the Muscle Cell. 48. Bones that do not fit a particular shape would be A) Short bone. B) Long bone. C) Irregular bone. D) Flat bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irregular bone. 49. A fluid that lubricates the bones is ..... A) Ligament. B) Blood. C) Oil. D) Synovial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synovial. 50. What does bone marrow do? A) Provide the skeleton with stability. B) Produce red blood cells. C) Help move the body. D) Produce energy for the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Produce red blood cells. 51. The thigh bone ..... is the longest and strongest bone in our body A) Femur. B) Mandible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Femur. 52. What is the term for the bones in the foot? A) Carpal bones. B) Phalanges. C) Metatarsal bones. D) Tarsal bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tarsal bones. 53. What is the name of the system that includes all your bones? A) Digestive. B) Skeletal. C) Circulatory. D) Respiratory. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skeletal. 54. BONE CELL THAT DESTROYS BONE A) OSTEOCLAST. B) OSTEOCYTE. C) OSTEON. D) OSTEOBLAST. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) OSTEOCLAST. 55. Which type of bone is known to be more dense, and looks smoother? A) Long Bones. B) Compact Bones. C) Spongy Bones. D) Irregular Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compact Bones. 56. What type of joint movement occurs at the ankle when a person stands on their toes? A) Hyperextension. B) Supination. C) Abduction. D) Plantar Flexion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Plantar Flexion. 57. Which type of bone is found in metacarpals, metatarsals and phalanges? A) Flat Bone. B) Irregular Bone. C) Long Bone. D) Short Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Short Bone. 58. Give bones their hardness 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: C) Calcium and phosphate minerals. 59. The spine support the ..... and helps us to stand straight and sit straight. A) Skull. B) Heart. C) Spinal cord. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord. 60. Combining form that means cartilage. A) Blachi/o. B) Myel/o. C) Arthr/o. D) Chondr/o. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chondr/o. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books