This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 193 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 193 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Longest and strongest bone in the body A) Calcium. B) Humerus. C) Pelvis. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Femur. 2. What are the regions under the axial group? A) Skull, arm, thorax. B) Skull, vertebral, patella. C) Skull, thorax, carpals. D) Skull, vertebral, thorax. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skull, vertebral, thorax. 3. The smallest bones are in our A) Finger. B) Ear. C) Leg. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ear. 4. Arthritis is ..... A) Inflammation of the joints. B) Softening of the bones. C) Uric build up. D) Result of aging. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Inflammation of the joints. 5. Muscle fibres that branch out in several directions form a tendon A) Fusiform, designed for power. B) Bi-pennate, large mobility. C) Multi-pennate, not much mobility. D) Multi-pennate, designed for power and strength. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Multi-pennate, not much mobility. 6. Cartilage can be found on these parts of the skeletal system except A) Knee cap. B) In-between your vertebrae. C) Tip of nose. D) Outer ear. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knee cap. 7. Which bone is found in the fingers and toes? A) Spine. B) Skull. C) Phalanges. D) Scapula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phalanges. 8. What is the medical term for skull? A) Cortic/o. B) Skulls. C) The fibula. D) Femor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skulls. 9. What would happen without the support of the skeletal system A) It will lose its control. B) Our body can handle its self. C) Our body would collapse. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Our body would collapse. 10. This type of muscle moves the bone. A) Skeletal. B) Cardiac. C) Smooth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal. 11. Which type of bone makes up the dense, hard outer shell? A) Compact bone. B) Medullary canal. C) Cancellous bone. D) Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compact bone. 12. What fills the hollow part of bones? A) Bone blood. B) Bone marrow. C) Compact bone. D) Calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bone marrow. 13. How is the thumb different from the other fingers? A) The thumb has more joints than the other fingers. B) The thumb has only two joints but the other fingers have three. C) The thumb is articulated but the other fingers are not. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The thumb has only two joints but the other fingers have three. 14. Twisting action tears the ligaments at a joint: A) Bursitis. B) Arthritis. C) Sprain. D) Dislocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sprain. 15. Which system is responsible for creating red blood cells. A) Skeletal. B) Muscular. C) Respiratory. D) Nervous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal. 16. What is the shape of the kneecap or patella? A) Flat. B) Short. C) Sesamoid. D) Long. E) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sesamoid. 17. Backbone protects which part of the body ..... A) Spinal cord. B) Lungs and Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spinal cord. 18. Which is a way to care for the skeletal system? A) Nutrition. B) Eat foods high in fat. C) Exercise. D) Both A and B. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Both A and B. 19. Immovable joints at which cranial bones attach to each other A) Carpals. B) Bursa sac. C) Sutures. D) Epiphyseal plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sutures. 20. Hyaline cartilage forms a blueprint of future bones A) Step 1 of endochondral ossification. B) Step 4 of endochondral ossification. C) Step 2 of endochondral ossification. D) Step 3 of endochondral ossification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Step 1 of endochondral ossification. 21. As part of the skeletal system, bones do all of the following except A) Protect organs. B) Make blood. C) Make nerve cells. D) Store calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Make nerve cells. 22. Movement of a joint around its longitudinal axis A) Pronation. B) Circumduction. C) Rotation. D) Supination. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rotation. 23. What is the correct term for:pod A) Head. B) Skull. C) Foot. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Foot. 24. Matrix resembles concrete with the collagen fibers like the reinforcing steel bars and the mineral component being the concrete. A) Bones. B) Tendons and ligaments. C) Cartilage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bones. 25. A5 Bones are always the same size. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 26. What belongs in number 6? A) Humerus. B) Femur. C) Tibia. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Femur. 27. Which type of bone form from intramembranous ossification? A) Tarsals. B) Ribs. C) Skull bones. D) Phalanges. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skull bones. 28. An incomplete bone break can cause which of the following? A) Complete. B) Greenstick. C) Transverse. D) Oblique. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greenstick. 29. Voluntary muscles are attached to A) Cardiac muscles. B) Smooth muscles. C) Skeletal muscles. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal muscles. 30. What is the name for the heel bone? A) Phalanges. B) Fibula. C) Calcaneus. D) Carpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calcaneus. 31. What is 'arthralgia'? A) Condition that causes stiffness. B) Inflammation of a joint. C) Condition that causes pain. D) Surgical removal of a joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Condition that causes pain. 32. This bone tissue is very strong and remodels by gettingthicker where more stressed is placed on the area. A) Spongy. B) Compact. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compact. 33. What are any of the pieces of hard whitish tissue making up the skeleton in humans and other vertebrates A) Skeleton. B) Bones. C) Ribs. D) Phalanges. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bones. 34. Match the Structures of a Typical Bone:D A) Artery/Vein. B) Central Canal. C) Osteons. D) Lamellae. E) Endosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteons. 35. ( ) muscles allow you to move parts of your body in different wayswhen you want to A) Voluntary. B) Involuntary. C) Smooth. D) Skeletal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voluntary. 36. Visualizes bone fractures A) X-Ray. B) Arthroscopy. C) Bunionectomy. D) Hallux. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) X-Ray. 37. The parietal bone is what type of bone? A) Sesamoid Bone. B) Flat Bone. C) Long Bone. D) Irregular Bone. E) Short Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat Bone. 38. Which type of specialized bone cell makes new bone cells? A) Osteoblasts. B) Osteoclasts. C) Osteocytes. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoblasts. 39. What is the word for the definition Synovial membrane/fluid? A) Double. B) Spondyl/o. C) Stenosis. D) Son/daughter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Son/daughter. 40. What is the function of the backbone? A) To protect the brain. B) To support delicate and soft organs. C) To anchor muscles. D) To enable standing up straight. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To enable standing up straight. 41. The abbreviation for fracture is: A) FA. B) FC. C) FR. D) FX. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) FX. 42. How many bones are in a human body? A) 50adult. B) 206adult. C) Equation. D) 157Adult. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206adult. 43. What is the function of synovial fluid in a joint? A) Lubricates the joint. B) Prevents friction. C) Increases range of movement. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 44. When would a human's long bone be filled with majority red marrow? A) Senior Citizen. B) During Teenage years. C) During Childhood. D) During Adulthood. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) During Childhood. 45. The osteocytes in compact bone are housed in small cavities called ..... A) Osteon. B) Lacunae. C) Haversian canals. D) Lamella. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lacunae. 46. ..... are bone stem cells that divide and differentiate into a different cell type A) Osteoclasts. B) Osteoprogenitor cells. C) Osteocytes. D) Osteoblasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoprogenitor cells. 47. Which of these events would happen FIRST? A) A child breaks their arm. B) A child falls off a scooter. C) A child goes to the doctor. D) A child get a cast for their arm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A child falls off a scooter. 48. True or False:The clavicle is the strongest bone in the body? A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 49. The fibrous tissue that covers the bone is the A) Periosteum. B) Osteocytes. C) Pericardium. D) Osteons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Periosteum. 50. A bone fracture that is usually only found in children is a A) Green stick fracture. B) Pink ribbon fracture. C) Brown bottle fracture. D) Yellow rope fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Green stick fracture. 51. The human skeletal system consists of 206 bones. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 52. Mature bone cells that become embedded in the bone matrix that maintain the daily activities of bone tissue A) Osteoclasts. B) Osteons. C) Osteocytes. D) Osteoblasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteocytes. 53. Which term identifies the upper part of the sternum? A) Handle. B) Mediastinum. C) Xiphoid process. D) Sternal body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Handle. 54. Who is the best science teacher ever? A) Mrs. Boyle. B) Mrs. Boyle. C) Mrs. Boyle. D) Mrs. Boyle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mrs. Boyle. 55. What are the bones present in our ear? A) Hammer, Anvil and Stirrup. B) Femur, Anvil and Tibia. C) Rib Cage. D) Hammer and Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hammer, Anvil and Stirrup. 56. The band that connects one bone to another bone is the ..... A) Fixed joint. B) Muscle. C) Elastic band. D) Heavy metal band. E) Ligament. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Ligament. 57. Give bones their flexibility 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: B) Collagens and other proteins. 58. Joints that allow movement in all directions are called ..... A) Ball and Socket Joints. B) Hinge Joints. C) Pivot Joints. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball and Socket Joints. 59. Just like your arm, your leg has one bone, called FEMUR, in the upper leg or thigh and two bones, called TIBIA and FIBULA, in the lower leg. Betweet the upper and lower leg is the PATELLA or kneecap. The foot also has several bones. In total, one leg and foot have 30 bones. A) Fact. B) Bluff. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fact. 60. Which word in the sentence is a clue to the meaning of the word artificial? A) Joint. B) Diseased. C) Replaced. D) Hip. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Replaced. ← 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