This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 188 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 188 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. BONUS QUESTION:WHAT TOPIC ARE WE LEARNING? A) CIRCULATORY SYSTEM. B) DIGESTIVE SYSTEM. C) SKELETON SYSTEM. D) RESPIRATORY SYSTEM. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) SKELETON SYSTEM. 2. What is the Medical Abbreviation for the definition Total knee arthroplasty? A) RA. B) Fx. C) OA. D) TKA. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) TKA. 3. Which form of fracture fixation is not usually removed after the fracture has healed? A) Internal fixation. B) External fixation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Internal fixation. 4. Bone tissue is also called osseous tissue and there are two types, compact and cancellous. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 5. The two key minerals stored in bone are A) Calcium and potassium. B) Sodium and potassium. C) Calcium and phosphorus. D) Sodium and phosphorus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calcium and phosphorus. 6. Another name for hunchback is what? A) Lordosis. B) Stenosis. C) Scoliosis. D) Kyphosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kyphosis. 7. Loss of bone tissue particularly in elderly people. A) Ligament. B) Tendon. C) Osteoporosis. D) Arthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoporosis. 8. Child and and adult have the same number of bones A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 9. Lateral curvature of the spine. A) Osteomalacia. B) Appendicular skeleton. C) Scoliosis. D) Eversion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scoliosis. 10. The bone that supports the spinal column and protects the organs in the lower body is called ..... A) The skull. B) The radius. C) The pelvis. D) The humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The pelvis. 11. Flexors are muscles that ..... a limb at a joint. A) Connect. B) Bend. C) Extend. D) Lengthen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bend. 12. Which one of these is not a cranial bone? A) Gladiolus. B) Occipital. C) Parietal. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gladiolus. 13. What material is know as a shock absorber and covers the ends of bones? A) Ligament. B) Periosteum. C) Bone marrow. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 14. Articular cartilage can be found ..... A) In cancellous bone. B) On the diaphysis of long bones. C) Only in flat bones. D) On the epiphysis of long bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) On the epiphysis of long bones. 15. A place in the skeleton where two or more joins A) Ligament. B) Cartilage. C) Joints. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joints. 16. Which of the following things is not an important job of your skeletal system? A) Hold your body up. B) Protect your organs. C) Keep you breathing. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Keep you breathing. 17. What are the three types of muscle? A) Smooth, Hard, Cardiac. B) Cardiac, Smooth, Skeletal. C) Skeleton, Heart, Bladder. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cardiac, Smooth, Skeletal. 18. Articular cartilage lines the outside of A) Long bones. B) Flat bones. C) The diaphysis. D) The epiphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The epiphysis. 19. What bone makes up the upper leg? A) Radius. B) Humerus. C) Ulna. D) Femur. E) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Femur. 20. How many thoracic vertebrae does a human have? A) 12. B) 5. C) 14. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 12. 21. Articular cartilage is found: A) At the growth plate. B) Between sutures. C) At the ends of bones. D) Surrounding long bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) At the ends of bones. 22. Growth plates. The area between the knobby ends and long shaft of a long bone. A) Ephiphysis. B) Metaphysis (epiphyseal plate). C) Diaphysis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphysis (epiphyseal plate). 23. Which part of the human body produces force to enable movement? A) Ligaments. B) Muscles. C) Bones. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muscles. 24. Which joint is found in the shoulder? A) Ball-and-Socket. B) Hinge. C) Fixed. D) Cardiac. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball-and-Socket. 25. Match the Long Bone Structures:H A) Proximal Epiphysis. B) Distal Epiphysis. C) Diaphysis. D) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distal Epiphysis. 26. PARTIAL KNEE REPLACEMENT A) PKT. B) PNR. C) PKR. D) PR. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) PKR. 27. What is another name for your voluntary muscles? A) Smooth. B) Cardiac. C) Skeletal. D) Involuntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal. 28. Joints allow bones to move. There are two types of joints:movable and immovable. For movable joints, there are four types that are determined. Choose the joint that allows FORWARD AND BACKWARD movement A) Ball-and-Socket Joint. B) Hinge Joint. C) Pivot Joint. D) Gliding Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge Joint. 29. An exaggeration of the thoracic curve is called ..... A) Halitosis. B) Lordosis. C) Scoliosis. D) Kyphosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kyphosis. 30. The small spaces in bone tissue that are holes in which osteocytes reside are called ..... A) Haversian canals. B) Lacunae. C) Beams. D) Volkmann's canals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lacunae. 31. Which specialized cell constantly removes minerals from bone? A) Osteoblasts. B) Osteoclasts. C) Osteocytes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoclasts. 32. What do osteoblasts differentiate into once they become embedded within the bone matrix? A) Osteocytes. B) Blood vessels. C) Monocytes. D) Osteoclasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteocytes. 33. ..... found in metaphysis is important in bone growth as it involved in increasing ..... of bone. A) Epiphyseal line:diameter. B) Epiphyseal plate:length. C) Epiphyseal plate:diameter. D) Epiphyseal line:length. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Epiphyseal plate:length. 34. There are ..... bones in the adult skeleton. A) 180. B) 206. C) 306. D) 500. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 35. A rounded bowing of the thoracic area of the back A) Kyphosis. B) Ruptured disc. C) Scoliosis. D) Lordosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kyphosis. 36. How many bones cranium got? A) 4. B) 8. C) 7. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8. 37. The prefix "a-" or "an-" means: A) Away from. B) Without, lack of. C) Cuved, bent. D) Toward. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Without, lack of. 38. The sternum is this type of bone. A) Short. B) Long. C) Flat. D) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flat. 39. What is in the middle of a second class level A) Fulcrum. B) Effort. C) Load. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Load. 40. Which of the following make up the axial skeleton? A) Skull, tibia, clavicle, vertebrae. B) Cranium, sternum, vertebrae, ribs. C) Skull, pelvis, sternum, pelvis. D) Clavicle, scapula, phalanges, tarsals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cranium, sternum, vertebrae, ribs. 41. This bone has irregular interconnecting spaces between bony plates. A) Wish Bone. B) Compact Bone. C) Spongy bone. D) Irregular Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spongy bone. 42. Which of the cells would be involved in rebuilding a bone after a fracture has taken place. A) Osteomasts. B) Osteocytes. C) Osteoblasts. D) Osteoclasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoblasts. 43. Strong connective tissue that is more flexible than bone. A) Marrow. B) Tendons. C) Ligaments. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 44. Which type of bone is the front of the skull made of? A) Irregular. B) Long. C) Short. D) Flat. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flat. 45. Which ribs are connected to the sternum through other ribs' cartilage? A) Articular. B) False. C) True. D) Floating. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 46. Excision of the synovial membrane. A) Arthrography. B) Hypertrophy. C) Osteoporosis. D) Synovectomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synovectomy. 47. A ..... is an area or articulation where two or more bones join together. A) Ligament. B) Fontanel. C) Joint. D) Suture. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joint. 48. Injury that affects the Lateral Ligaments of the ankle A) Syndesmotic Sprain. B) Eversion Ankle Sprain. C) Deltoid Ligament Sprain. D) Inversion Ankle Sprain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Inversion Ankle Sprain. 49. If someone sits with rounded shoulders, head forward, and hunchback. these characteristics describe: A) Lordosis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Kyphosis. D) Scoliosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Kyphosis. 50. Lou' s grandmother use to be taller than all of her sisters. Now she is shorter and recently fell and fractures her hip. What disordered would cause these symptoms? A) Gout. B) Rickets. C) Osteoarthritis. D) Osteoporosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteoporosis. 51. Voluntary muscle A) Skeletal. B) Smooth. C) Cardiac. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal. 52. In the fetal skull, the fibrous membranes connecting the cranial bones are called ..... A) Hyoid. B) Sutures. C) The Great Hole. D) Fontanelles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fontanelles. 53. White hard tissue A) Cartilage. B) Bones. C) Joints. D) Bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bones. 54. Which of the following is the smallest bone? A) Finger. B) Stapes. C) Radical. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stapes. 55. Bones of the spinal column are called ..... A) Sutures. B) Sinuses. C) Vertebrae. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vertebrae. 56. With THA and TKA, the A stands for: A) Arthrolysis. B) Arthritis. C) Arthoplasty. D) Abnormality. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arthoplasty. 57. Which organ system is responsible for giving shape to the entire human body? A) Circulatory system. B) Muscular system. C) Skeletal system. D) Digestive system. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal system. 58. Acute indirect injuries involve..... A) Hard tissue (sprains, strains, tears). B) Soft tissue (sprains, strains, tears). C) Soft tissue (cuts, bruises, fractures). D) Soft tissue (cuts and sprains). Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Soft tissue (sprains, strains, tears). 59. What is the word for the definition deficiency? A) -ago. B) -painted. C) -one. D) Rib. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) -painted. 60. What is the outer part of a bone made of? A) Calcium. B) Seashells. C) Muscle. D) Blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calcium. ← 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