This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 17 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This is included in the axial skeleton A) Pelvic girdle. B) Vertebrae. C) Clavicle. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vertebrae. 2. What is arthritis? A) Limited growth of bones. B) Inflammation of a joint. C) Brittle bones. D) Damage to plates. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Inflammation of a joint. 3. What is an 'Agonist' muscle? A) A muscle that contracts to cause movement to occur. B) A muscle which maintains its length throughout a contraction. C) A muscle that acts to produce the opposite action to the antagonist. D) A muscle which has an injury. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A muscle that contracts to cause movement to occur. 4. The canal that runs through each osteon contains: A) Cartilage and lamella. B) Osteoclasts and osteoblasts. C) Yellow marrow and Sharpey's fibers. D) Blood vessels and nerve fibers. E) Red marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blood vessels and nerve fibers. 5. Through which of the following skull foramen is the facial nerve passes? A) Internal acoustic meatus. B) A hole of lacerations. C) Foramen ovale. D) Foramen spinosum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal acoustic meatus. 6. The knee joint is an example of which joint? A) Ball and socket. B) Saddle. C) Hinge. D) Condyloid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinge. 7. Which of the following is the third step in ossification? A) Osteoblasts form spongy bone. B) The matrix around the chondrocytes calcifies and hardens. C) Chondrocytes divide rapidly and form tiny columns of cells. D) Osteoclasts enlarge the bone cavity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoblasts form spongy bone. 8. What are the showder bones called? A) Stirrup. B) Clavicle. C) Cage. D) Showder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clavicle. 9. An important function of the muscular system is to aid in the return of blood from the legs through muscular compression on the leg veins. A) F. B) T. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) T. 10. The number of bones in the body lessens as we grow old. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 11. All of the following bones form part of the knee joint except A) The femur. B) The tibia. C) The patella. D) The ilium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The ilium. 12. Which if these bones is found in the arm? A) Ulna and radius. B) Scapula. C) Sternum. D) Tibia and fibula. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ulna and radius. 13. Another name for your backbone is called ..... A) Spine. B) Stomach. C) Pancreas. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spine. 14. What suture connects the parietal bones with the occipital bone? A) Sagittal Suture. B) Squamous Suture. C) Lambdoid Suture. D) Occipitomastoid Suture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lambdoid Suture. 15. Which type of joint is generally immovable? A) Synovial. B) Fibrous. C) Cartilaginous. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fibrous. 16. What type of bone are your vertebrae? A) Sesamoid. B) Irregular. C) Long. D) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Irregular. 17. The ..... protects your heart, lungs, liver. A) Skull. B) Patella. C) Ribs. D) Pelvis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ribs. 18. We need cartilage in our rib cage because A) It keeps the spine strong. B) It keeps the ribs strong. C) It helps to stretch the ribs when we breathe. D) It protects the lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It helps to stretch the ribs when we breathe. 19. Blood and yellow bone marrow are examples of what type of tissue A) Connective. B) Muscle. C) Epithelial. D) Nervous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connective. 20. A group of organs working together as a team to perform a function A) Organ system. B) Tissue. C) Organ. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organ system. 21. A softening of bone tissue in children due to a vitamin D deficiency A) Rickets. B) Gout. C) Osteoporosis. D) Rheumatoid arthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rickets. 22. Which type of bone is found in the wrist? A) Flat. B) Irregular. C) Long. D) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Short. 23. From which system does the body get the message to move? A) Circulatory System. B) Nervous System. C) Skeletal System. D) Muscular System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nervous System. 24. What type of bone is humerus? A) Long bone. B) Flat bone. C) Short bone. D) Irregular bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long bone. 25. Muscles that we have control over are ..... muscles. A) Independent. B) Involuntary. C) Voluntary. D) Dependent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Voluntary. 26. Rheumatoid arthritis is any autoimmune disorder. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 27. Select an example of flat bones A) Ribs. B) Vertebrate. C) Phalanges. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ribs. 28. The hyoid bone, found in the throat, is the only bone that ..... A) Doesn't articulate with another bone. B) Is found in the tongue. C) Grows continuously throughout a person's lifetime. D) Is actually not alive in adults. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Doesn't articulate with another bone. 29. The x-ray shows what type of fracture? A) Compound tagsSAP2. B) Greenstick. C) Comminuted. D) Spiral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spiral. 30. What is the main function of the sternum in the skeletal system? A) The sternum protects the spinal cord from receiving damage. B) The sternum allows the ribs to expand and contract when a human breathes. C) The sternum connects bone to bone. D) The sternum cushions bones to keep them from grinding together. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The sternum allows the ribs to expand and contract when a human breathes. 31. What type of tissue in bones is responsible for blood production? A) Yellow bone marrow. B) Spongy bone. C) Compact bone. D) Red bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red bone marrow. 32. The smaller bone in the forearm on the side of the thumb is called: A) Tibia. B) Ulna. C) Talus. D) Radius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Radius. 33. All the bones in your body make up the ..... A) Skeletal system. B) Bone system. C) Bone structure. D) Skeletal structure. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal system. 34. What is a bone that is thin and flattened, usually curved, and is comprised of thin layers of compact bone around a layer of spongy bone classified as? A) Sesamoid bone. B) Long bone. C) Irregular bone. D) Short bone. E) Flat bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Flat bone. 35. There are 14 cranial bones and 8 facial bones. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 36. Which of the vertebrae contain the densest osseous tissue? A) Cervical. B) Thoracic. C) Lumbar. D) Sacral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lumbar. 37. Which of the following is found in the form of 12 pairs? A) Backbone. B) Skull. C) Ribcage. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ribcage. 38. The three jobs of your skeletal system are: A) Pump blood, help you move, give you shape. B) Give you shape, help you move, digest food. C) Give you shape, help you move, protect your organs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Give you shape, help you move, protect your organs. 39. Why do birds have hollow bones? A) To make them lighter so they can easily fly long distances. B) To make the heavier so they can fly. C) So they can run faster. D) Birds don't have hollow bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make them lighter so they can easily fly long distances. 40. The number of bones in an adult human body is A) 206. B) 204. C) 205. D) 207. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 206. 41. Both the jaw have teeth ..... in them A) Glued. B) Stuck. C) Fixed. D) Embedded. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Embedded. 42. Which of the following isn't technically a bone? A) Phalanges. B) Chester. C) Bpatellae. D) Ateeth. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ateeth. 43. Which cranial bone contains the foramen magnum? A) Occipital. B) Temporal. C) Frontal. D) Parietal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Occipital. 44. Which of the following is not one of the four main types of tissues? A) Nervous. B) Epithelial. C) Connective. D) Blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blood. 45. The blood cell for function of the body A) Red blood cell. B) Blue blood cell. C) Green blood cell. D) Mcdonalds blood cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red blood cell. 46. Yellow bone marrow stores fat A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 47. What is osteogenesis? A) Bone tissue formation. B) Hardening of bone from cartilage over time. C) Locations where muscles and ligaments attach. D) Locations where joints are formed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bone tissue formation. 48. How many bones are in your body? A) 25. B) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 49. Where do bones meet? A) At tissues. B) At muscles. C) At tendons. D) At joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) At joints. 50. A(n) ..... can help determine whether the disorder is muscular or neurologic in nature. A) Electromyography (EMG). B) Tomography. C) Ultrasonography. D) Radiography. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Electromyography (EMG). 51. How many different types of joints are there? A) 2. B) 5. C) 3. D) 8. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 3. 52. ..... is a strong and smooth connective tissue that covers and protects the end of bones. A) Collagen. B) Ligaments. C) Tendons. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 53. To articulate is to form a A) Bursa. B) Ligament. C) Tendon. D) Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Joint. 54. Muscles of the heart A) Ligament. B) Cardiac muscles. C) Cartilage. D) Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cardiac muscles. 55. These bones have platelike structures with broad surfaces. A) Long. B) Short. C) Flat. D) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flat. 56. Air spaces in the bones that aid in the production of sound. A) Sutures. B) Carpals. C) Sinuses. D) Cranium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sinuses. 57. It manufactures the blood cells in the body A) Hinge joints. B) Blood cell. C) Blood. D) Bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bone marrow. 58. Disorder due to "wear and tear" and is a breakdown of the articular cartilage A) Fracture. B) Rheumatoid arthritis. C) Osteoarthritis. D) Dislocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoarthritis. 59. ..... is the smallest entity of a human body and considered as the building block of life. A) Organs. B) Organ systems. C) Cells. D) Tissues. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cells. 60. Fracture repair has four major steps. When mitosis occurs at the break, creating the cartilaginous precursor, what stage of repair is occurring? A) Hematoma. B) Soft callus. C) Bony callus. D) Bone remodeling. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soft callus. ← 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