This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 210 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 210 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A(n) ..... is a place where two or more bones meet. A) Artery. B) Tendon. C) Articulation. D) Ligament. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Articulation. 2. The scientific name for "lower jaw" is A) Cranium. B) Mandible. C) Pelvis. D) Carpal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mandible. 3. Moving a limb away from midline A) Adduction. B) Pronation. C) Flexion. D) Abduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abduction. 4. The firm, flexible connective tissue that provides structural support and reduces friction around joints. A) Cartilage. B) Patella. C) Ligament. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 5. Move away from midline A) Circumduction. B) Abduction. C) Adduction. D) Pronation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abduction. 6. A tendon connects which of the following ..... A) Bone to bone. B) Muscle to muscle. C) Muscle to bone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muscle to bone. 7. What would your tarsals be called A) Neck. B) Ankle. C) Wrist. D) Knee. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ankle. 8. Fibrous joints are? A) Freely moveable. B) Partially moveable. C) Immovable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Immovable. 9. Cause:Bacterial infection. A) Osteogenesis Imperfecta. B) Ricketts. C) Osteomyelitis. D) Achondroplasia. E) Osteoporosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteomyelitis. 10. It attaches to the sternum. A) True Ribs. B) False ribs. C) Rib Cage. D) Floating Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True Ribs. 11. Choose the correct answer:Collar bone A) Radius. B) Humerus. C) Clavicle. D) Cranium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clavicle. 12. What is the primary organic component of bone? A) Calcium phosphate. B) Hydroxyapatite. C) Collagen. D) Osteoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Collagen. 13. Small, round bone that is shaped like a sesame seed A) Irregular bone. B) Flat bone. C) Sesamoid bone. D) Long bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sesamoid bone. 14. Nerves and blood vessels within osteons travel through hollow passageways called? A) Endrochondral canals. B) Calcium tunnels. C) Haversian canals. D) Osteoways. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Haversian canals. 15. What material is found between the tibia and femur and acts as padding? A) Cartilage. B) Ligament. C) Tendons. D) Collagen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 16. What type of muscle are voluntary that provides the force needed to move the bones? A) Smooth. B) Cardiac. C) Skeletal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal. 17. Your backbone is called A) The Neck. B) The vertebral column. C) A Scoliosis. D) The Pelvis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The vertebral column. 18. Select an example of a short bone A) Vertebrate. B) Ribs. C) Phalanges. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Phalanges. 19. Moves back and forth only A) Pivotal joint. B) Ball and socket joint. C) Hinge joint. D) Gliding joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinge joint. 20. What is the section of vertebrae in the lower back called? A) Thoracic. B) Lumbar. C) Cervical. D) Coccyx. E) Sacred. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lumbar. 21. The muscle which causes movement is the ..... A) Antagonist. B) Agonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Agonist. 22. The type of muscle contraction where the muscle tenses but does not shorten. A) Relaxation. B) Contraction. C) Isotonic. D) Isometric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Isometric. 23. Which part of the bone is responsible for making blood cells? A) Spongy bone. B) Yellow marrow. C) Periosteum. D) Red marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red marrow. 24. The epiphyses is the A) Strong membrane covering bone . B) Contains yellow bone marrow. C) Shaft, hollow tube made of bone compact. D) End of long bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) End of long bones. 25. Which region of the vertebral column receives the most stress by bearing most of the weight of the body? A) The cervical region. B) The thoracic region. C) The sacrum. D) The sacral region. E) The lumbar region. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) The lumbar region. 26. What is the skeletal system NOT made up of? A) Ligaments. B) Bones. C) Epithelial. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epithelial. 27. Between your femur and tibia/fibula is what type of joint? A) Ball and socket. B) Pivot Joint. C) Hinge Joint. D) Saddle Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinge Joint. 28. An increased amount of uric acid in the blood may cause: A) Fibromyalgia. B) Bursitis. C) Rheumatic fever. D) Gout. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gout. 29. The scientific name for "backbone" is A) Sternum. B) Vertebra. C) Tarsal. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vertebra. 30. Which system Absorbs sunlight and turns it to Vitamin D A) Skeletal. B) Outgrowths. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Outgrowths. 31. A tough but flexible tissue that acts as a buffer between the bones, preventing bones rubbing together and causing friction A) Bursa. B) Joint Capsule. C) Synovial Fluid. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 32. What is the word for the definition joint? A) Caf/o. B) -ago. C) Arthr/o. D) -hiss. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arthr/o. 33. These blood cells clot blood. A) T-cells. B) Platelets. C) Red. D) White. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Platelets. 34. Which parts in the body never sleep A) Ears. B) Eyes. C) Stomach. D) Lungs-Brain-Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lungs-Brain-Heart. 35. Consists of the bones of the appendages and the girdles, arms & legs and shoulders & pelvis A) Appendicular Skeleton. B) Axial Skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appendicular Skeleton. 36. LEGS, ARMS, FINGERS, AND TOES A) Long. B) Flatt. C) Sesamoid. D) Irregular. E) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long. 37. The axial skeleton includes which of the following bones? A) Aphalanges. B) Bpatella and sternum. C) Chips, pelvis and legs. D) Dskull, rib cage and spine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dskull, rib cage and spine. 38. The cranial bone containing the sella turcica, which protects the pituitary gland, is the ..... A) Frontal bone. B) Vomer bone. C) Occipital bone. D) Sphenoid bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sphenoid bone. 39. Which of the following means "one of the hard parts that make up the skeleton in vertebrates?" A) Skeleton. B) System. C) Bone. D) Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bone. 40. What is on the outside of your lower leg? A) Phibia. B) Radius. C) Tibia. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phibia. 41. Floating ribs have-pairs? A) 4. B) 1. C) 2. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 42. If you touch the middle of your chest you feel your breastbone, also known as A) Ribs. B) Sternum. C) Heart. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sternum. 43. Red bone marrow functions to A) Produce new bone cells. B) Store cells. C) Produce fat. D) Produce blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Produce blood cells. 44. The thumb and big toe are similar because A) They both have two carpals. B) They both have two phalanges. C) They both are very large. D) They are made of metacarpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They both have two phalanges. 45. This is the outer surface of bone that covers the diaphysis and supports the attachments of tendons and ligaments. A) Medullary cavity. B) Periosteum. C) Endosteum. D) Articular cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periosteum. 46. How many bones are there in skeletal system A) 205. B) 206. C) 245. D) 200. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 47. Bone cells are known as A) Collagen. B) Osteon. C) Osteocytes. D) Lacunae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteocytes. 48. Type of cancer where white blood cells are produced abnormally. A) Leukemia. B) Jaundice. C) Halitosis. D) Sickle Cell Anemia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leukemia. 49. Inflammation of bone and bone marrow. A) Bradykinesia. B) Synarthrosis. C) Kyphosis. D) Osteomyelitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteomyelitis. 50. Which bone has fixed joints? A) Radius and Ulna. B) Metacarpal. C) Pelvis. D) Cranium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cranium. 51. Which type of muscle is adapted to be highly resistant to fatigue? A) Skeletal. B) Smooth. C) Cardiac. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cardiac. 52. Joint that can rotate in all directions found in shoulder and hips A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball and socket. 53. Where is the red bone marrow found in the human body? A) Wrist. B) Shoulder blades. C) Skull. D) Humerus, femur, pelvis, and vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humerus, femur, pelvis, and vertebrae. 54. Is located on the back side of the ribcage and helps provide part of the shoulder joint and movement for the arms. A) Cartilage. B) Ribs. C) Tendons. D) Scapula. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scapula. 55. Bones that surround the spinal cord are classified as ..... bones. A) Flat. B) Sesamoid. C) Irregular. D) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Irregular. 56. The axial skeleton refers to the A) Legs and arms. B) The pelvis. C) The clavicle and scapula. D) The skull, spine, sternum, and ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The skull, spine, sternum, and ribs. 57. Movement away from the mid-line of the body is called? A) Extension. B) Rotation. C) Abduction. D) Flexion. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Abduction. 58. What gas does the Respiratory System release? A) Oxygen. B) Carbon Dioxide. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carbon Dioxide. 59. Yellow Bone Marrow is located in the A) Epiphysis. B) Diaphysis. C) Epiphyseal Plate. D) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diaphysis. 60. What type of muscle is a skeletal muscle? A) Voluntary Muscle. B) Involuntary Muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voluntary Muscle. ← 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