This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 156 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 156 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What part of the skeletal system holds the joints in place like a big rubber band? A) Ligament. B) Joint. C) Cartilage. D) Skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ligament. 2. Ava, Abigail, and Aria are playing a fun game of 'Name that Bone!' They come across a tricky question. Which of the following bones is NOT part of the axial skeleton? A) Clavicle. B) Frontal. C) Sternum. D) Vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clavicle. 3. The 12 pair of ribs form the ..... A) Sternum. B) Fibula. C) Thorax. D) Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thorax. 4. Which type of joint has the greatest range of motion? A) Hinge. B) Ball and socket. C) Plane. D) Pivot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ball and socket. 5. Where would you expect to find fibrocartilage? A) Connecting your ribs to your sternum. B) Connecting bone to muscle. C) In the disks between vertebrae. D) Connecting bone to bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the disks between vertebrae. 6. Covers the ends of long bones in order to prevent wear-n-tear and is called articulating cartilage A) Hyaline cartilage. B) Compact bone. C) Muscle. D) Irregular cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyaline cartilage. 7. The types of muscle tissue are ..... A) Smooth. B) Cardiac. C) Skeletal. D) All of the ones listed here. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the ones listed here. 8. The lower arm bone on the thumb side is called the ..... A) Ulna. B) Humerus. C) Radius. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radius. 9. Forms chin ..... only free moving facial bone A) Nasal bone. B) Cheeks. C) Mandible. D) Lacrimal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mandible. 10. The skin is the largest ..... in the body. A) Organ. B) Nerve. C) Oil gland. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organ. 11. Condyle (rounded prominence) of the humerus; articulates with the ulna A) Radius. B) Trochlea. C) Deltoid tuberosity. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Trochlea. 12. What can we do to make our bones stronger? A) Exercise and eat healthy foods. B) Watch TV and eat junk food. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Exercise and eat healthy foods. 13. The process of long bone growth is controlled by ....., whereas bone remodeling/destruction is controlled by ..... A) Osteoblasts; osteoclasts. B) Vitamins; minerals. C) Minerals; vitamins. D) Osteoclasts; osteoblasts. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoblasts; osteoclasts. 14. What are bony plates that create spaces to reduce the weight A) Articular cartilage. B) Periosteum. C) Compact bone. D) Spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spongy bone. 15. Hey there, Olivia, Daniel, and Jackson! Can you guess what the soft spots on a baby's head are called? A) Hyoid. B) Sutures. C) Fontanels. D) Cranium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fontanels. 16. Very young poultry A) Lamb. B) Chick. C) Kid. D) Kit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chick. 17. What is a portable machine used to restart the heart called? A) AID. B) AED. C) ADE. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) AED. 18. Bones are mostly made of: A) Collagen. B) Hydroxyapatite crystal. C) Water. D) Calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hydroxyapatite crystal. 19. The skeletal system protects body tissue and internal organs. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 20. The row of bones that runs along the center of the back. A) Backbone/Spine. B) Vertebrae. C) Ribs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Backbone/Spine. 21. Which one is NOT a function of the bones? A) Bones protect vital organs from damage. B) Bones store minerals for the body. C) Bones provide the bodies ability to digest food. D) Bones provide structure to the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bones provide the bodies ability to digest food. 22. This type of bone is solid throughout except for the central canals holding blood vessels and nerves. A) Compact Bone. B) Spongy or Cancellous Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compact Bone. 23. Which cells are responsible for the breakdown of bone tissue? A) Osteoclasts. B) Osteocytes. C) Osteon. D) Osteoblasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoclasts. 24. Bone form first as A) Tendons. B) Articular cartilage. C) Hyaline cartilage. D) Ligaments. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyaline cartilage. 25. Which of the following means "to bear the weight of something or to give assistance?" A) Patella. B) Support. C) Joint. D) Structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Support. 26. What is the scientific name for ribs? A) Pelvis. B) Ribs. C) Sternum. D) BBQ. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ribs. 27. This is a tough fibrous connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone A) Meniscus. B) Cartilage. C) Ligament. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tendon. 28. What type of bones are found in the arms and legs? A) Long. B) Flat. C) Short. D) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long. 29. A disease that most commonly affects the large weight-bearing joints, such as the knees and hips, is known as: A) Osteomyelitis. B) Gout. C) Osteoporosis. D) Osteoarthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteoarthritis. 30. Joint that enable bones to move freely in all directions such as in the shoulders and hips where also the rouded end of the joint where upper arm fits into the hollow socket at the end of the shoulder bones A) Ball-and-socket. B) Gliding. C) Hinge. D) Saddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball-and-socket. 31. Medial bone of the forearm (off the pinky) A) Humerus. B) Fibula. C) Ribs. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ulna. 32. Where are Blood Cells produced A) Marrow. B) Spleen. C) Liver. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of these. 33. The "wear and tear" type of arthritis associated with aging is called ..... A) Rheumatoid. B) Chondromalacia. C) Osteoarthritis. D) Gouty. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoarthritis. 34. The rib cage is part of the ..... skeleton. A) Axial. B) Appendicular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axial. 35. Which is NOT a function of your skin? A) Protecting your body from outside invaders. B) Regulating temperature. C) Taking in oxygen. D) Sensing touch and temperature. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Taking in oxygen. 36. What does the bone serve as a storehouse for? A) Vitamins and proteins. B) Water and fat. C) Minerals like calcium and phosphorous. D) Carbohydrates and enzymes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Minerals like calcium and phosphorous. 37. Which of the following tissues are voluntary? A) Smooth. B) Spikes. C) Skeletal. D) Cardiac. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal. 38. One of Ms. Haude's kids goes to Hendrickson. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 39. Soft, netlike mass of connective tissue A) Periosteum. B) Endosteum. C) Inorganic salts. D) Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marrow. 40. The bones in moveable joints are held together with ..... A) Witchcraft!. B) Cartilage. C) Ligaments. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ligaments. 41. A localized clotted mass of blood found in an organ, tissue or space. It is caused by a traumatic injury, such as a blow, that can cause a blood vessel to rupture A) Aneurysm. B) Hematoma. C) Sickle Cell Anemia. D) Septicemia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hematoma. 42. Writing a letter uses all of the following types of joints EXCEPT A) Saddle. B) Ball & socket. C) Hinge. D) Pivot. E) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Gliding. 43. What is the primary function of osteocytes in bone tissue? A) Maintenance of bone tissue. B) Resorption of bone tissue. C) Production of red blood cells. D) Production of bone matrix. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maintenance of bone tissue. 44. "Crani/o" means: A) Skull. B) Pain. C) Rib. D) Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skull. 45. The end of your bones are surrounded by ..... to help protect the bones. A) Muscles. B) Tendons. C) Ligaments. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 46. What bones are in the green? A) Phalanges. B) Patellas. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phalanges. 47. Abnormally low bone mass or bone mineral density. A) Chondromalacia. B) Lumbar. C) Osteopenia. D) Synovial sarcoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteopenia. 48. Noah, Lily, and Arjun are playing a trivia game about bones. They come across a question:Which of the following is an example of an irregular bone? A) Clavicle. B) Tibia. C) Invertebrate. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Invertebrate. 49. Cords of dense connective tissue connecting muscles to bone A) Cartilage. B) Joint. C) Ligament. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tendon. 50. If calcium levels are too high in the body fluids, this produces calcitonin, which causes increased excretion of calcium by kidneys, and calcium deposition in bones, resulting in lower calcium levels. A) Heart. B) Nervous System. C) Thyroid Gland. D) Pineal Gland. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thyroid Gland. 51. Cavity in the diaphysis that contain red or yellow marrow. A) Medullary Cavity. B) Marrow cavity. C) Nerve cavity. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Medullary Cavity. 52. What are tiny cavities laid out in concentric circles around the Haversian canals? A) Osteon. B) Lacunae. C) Lamellae. D) Medullary cavity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lacunae. 53. Where are the smallest bones in your body? A) Legs (femur). B) Ear. C) Hands & Feet. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ear. 54. Which vitamin is needed for the body to absorb calcium? A) Vitamin E. B) Vitamin D. C) Vitamin A. D) Vitamin C. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vitamin D. 55. What is the cushioning between your joints A) Cartilage. B) Ligaments. C) Strain. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 56. Arthrosclerosis is ..... in the ..... A) Stiffness; whole body. B) Inflammation; knee. C) Fractures; bone. D) Stiffness; joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stiffness; joints. 57. Which type of joint is found in our backbone and skull? A) Ball and Socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pivot. 58. Padding between bones A) Endosteum. B) Hyaline. C) Articular cartilage. D) Lamella. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Articular cartilage. 59. Which bone is referred to as the Knee Cap ..... A) Patella. B) Fibula. C) Femur. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Patella. 60. Main Organs:Bones and joints A) Circulatory. B) Skeletal. C) Muscular. D) Respiratory. 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