This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 202 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 202 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The two main minerals stored in the bones are A) Sodium and Chloride. B) Calcium and Phosphorus. C) Iron and Zinc. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calcium and Phosphorus. 2. The neck is an example of this joint: A) Pivot. B) Ball and Socket. C) Gliding. D) Hinge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pivot. 3. What is located at number 3? A) Ulna. B) Humerus. C) Radius. D) Mandible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humerus. 4. These are mature bone cells A) Osteocytes. B) Osteoplasts. C) Osteoblasts. D) Osteoclasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteocytes. 5. Haversian and Volkmann canals A) Provide passageways for blood vessels. B) I don't know. C) House cells. D) Provide passageways for blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Provide passageways for blood vessels. 6. Cardiac muscles are striated (striped). A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 7. Allows two bones to rotate against each other, to turn your head from left to right A) Gliding. B) Pivot. C) Hinge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pivot. 8. The ..... provides shape and support, enables the body to move, protects organs, produces blood cells, and stores minerals and other materials that the body needs. A) Skeleton. B) Fracture. C) Structure. D) Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeleton. 9. What is the role of the bicuspid valve in the heart? A) Allowing backflow of blood from the left ventricle to the left atrium. B) Controlling blood flow between the aorta and the pulmonary artery. C) Regulating blood flow between the right ventricle and the right atrium. D) Preventing backflow of blood from the left ventricle to the left atrium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Preventing backflow of blood from the left ventricle to the left atrium. 10. Where is yellow marrow in a long bone? A) Trapezoid. B) Medullary cavity. C) Sternum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Medullary cavity. 11. The human skeleton is made up of A) Skull. B) Ribcage. C) Two pairs of limbs. D) Backbone. E) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of these. 12. Allow rotation, , ..... A) Saddle Joint. B) Pivot Joint. C) Ball-and-Socket Joint. D) Hinge Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pivot Joint. 13. The Smallest bone is ....., which is present in our ears. A) Femur. B) Stapes. C) Shin bone. D) Mandible bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stapes. 14. The ability for the body to maintain a stable internal environment is called A) Homeostasis. B) Homeomorphism. C) Homeopathy. D) Home Control. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Homeostasis. 15. What are the two divisions that the human skeleton is divided into? A) Axial and Appendicular. B) Upper Limbs and Lower Limbs. C) Compact and Spongy. D) Tendons and Ligaments. E) Bones and Muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axial and Appendicular. 16. The stem cell of our bone A) Osteoblast. B) Chondrocyte. C) Osteocyte. D) Osteogenic. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteogenic. 17. Bands of strong connective tissue hold bones together: A) Ligaments. B) Tendons. C) Periosteum. D) Joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ligaments. 18. ..... cannot move. A) Hinge joints. B) Ball-and-socket joints. C) Fixed joints. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fixed joints. 19. If you stub your toe playing basketball, what bone is likely injured? A) Pelvis. B) Phalanges. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phalanges. 20. A break in bone that does not penetrate the skin A) Closed fracture. B) Stress fracture. C) Compound fracture. D) Open fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Closed fracture. 21. AXIAL SKELETON consists of A) Pectoral Girdle. B) Metatarsal. C) Pelvic Girdle. D) Vertebral Column. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vertebral Column. 22. True or False:Ligaments connect bones to other bones. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. A tendon attaches muscles to muscles A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 24. What type of bone is thin, flattened and usually curved? A) Long. B) Flat. C) Short. D) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat. 25. Yellow marrow is made of A) Fat. B) Material that produced red blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fat. 26. Allows sliding and twisting movement of bones A) Hinge Joint. B) Gliding Joint. C) Pivot joint. D) Fixed or immovable Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gliding Joint. 27. Inner space of the LONG bone containing bone marrow? A) Spongy Bone. B) Osteoblast. C) Compact Bone. D) Medullary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Medullary. 28. From the reading, an example of an immovable joint is what? A) Arms. B) Hands. C) Skull. D) Feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skull. 29. What is the connective tissue that links bone to bone? A) Joint. B) Ligament. C) Tendon. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ligament. 30. What does the skeletal system protect? A) Heart. B) Lungs. C) Both of these. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both of these. 31. What is the main difference between yellow marrow and red marrow in the medullary cavity? A) Yellow can be cut through, red cannot be. B) Yellow is only in infants, red is only in adults. C) Red stores fat, yellow forms blood cells. D) Yellow stores fat, red forms blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Yellow stores fat, red forms blood cells. 32. True or False:There are 2 types of marrow:red & yellow. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 33. Which ossification centers are located in the epiphyses? A) Secondary. B) Quaternary. C) Primary. D) Tertiary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Secondary. 34. The muscles that help with movement? A) Smooth. B) Cardiac. C) Skeletal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal. 35. The ..... are the two bones that form the upper jaw. A) Mandibles. B) Cheeks. C) Mandible. D) Maxilla. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cheeks. 36. The scientific name for "kneecap" is A) Scapula. B) Pelvis. C) Femur. D) Patella. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Patella. 37. A fiverlike protein, that makes bone so tough that they can stand stress and strain. A) Collagen. B) Joint. C) Sutures. D) Fixed joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Collagen. 38. The lateral (thumb-side), shorter bone in the forearm is the A) Ulna. B) Radius. C) Tibia. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Radius. 39. Most people have ..... ribs A) 12 pairs. B) 11 pairs. C) 16 pairs. D) 24 pairs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 12 pairs. 40. Dense connective tissue that connects bone to muscle A) Periosteum. B) Muscle. C) Ligament. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tendon. 41. An adult has ..... A) 206 bones. B) 260 bones. C) 230 bones. D) 602 bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 206 bones. 42. Which phrase best describes Cartilage? A) A dense, fibrous tissue that is able to withstand compression forces. B) A hard bone like tissue with good blood supply. C) A soft spongy tissue found only in the bone marrow of long bones. D) It is only found in children up to the age of 18 years old. E) Its only found in aliens. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A dense, fibrous tissue that is able to withstand compression forces. 43. You take a joint away from the mid-line of your body. What action is that? A) Flexion. B) Adduction. C) Abduction. D) Rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abduction. 44. What food or drink is important in making bones strong? A) Vegetables. B) Milk. C) Banana. D) Tomato. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Milk. 45. Only bone located in the thigh. A) Humerus. B) Radius. C) Femur. D) Pelvis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Femur. 46. The upper potion of the skull that protects the brain is called ..... A) Rib cage. B) Cranium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cranium. 47. Which connecting tissue cushions bones? A) Ligaments. B) Cartilage. C) Tendons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cartilage. 48. ..... muscle directly allows for bone movement A) Skeletal. B) Smooth. C) Cardiac. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal. 49. The outer surface of bone is called the A) Bone cavity. B) Bone marrow. C) Cancellous Bone. D) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Periosteum. 50. The longest bone in your body is the A) Tibia. B) Femur. C) Humerus. D) Patella. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Femur. 51. The name for the thinner of the two bones in the lower part of your leg. A) Humerus. B) Femur. C) Fibula. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fibula. 52. What protects the bones from rubbing together? A) Tendons. B) Ligaments. C) Cartilage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilage. 53. The shaft of the bone is known as the diaphysis. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 54. I am located near the base of the spine where the hind limbs/legs are attached. I am a bone that is separated in children and fused together in adults. A) Carpals. B) Femur. C) Cranium. D) Pelvis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pelvis. 55. "Baby" cells that can build calcified bone matrix. A) Lamellae. B) Osteoclasts. C) Osteoblasts. D) Canals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoblasts. 56. What is the green structure? A) Giant tubercle. B) Gluteal tuberosity. C) Greater trochanter. D) Great tubuerosity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Greater trochanter. 57. The femur and humerus are examples of this A) Flat Bone. B) Irregular Bone. C) Short Bone. D) Long Bone. E) Sesamoid Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Long Bone. 58. The shoulder bones are called ..... A) Humerus. B) Metacarpals. C) Shoulders. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shoulders. 59. Epiphyseal (growth) Plate A) Horizonal wise growth. B) Length wise growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Length wise growth. 60. Which type of joint is found in our hips and shoulders A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball and socket. ← 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