This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 212 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 212 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is the function of the pelvic bones in the skeletal system? A) Storing blood cells. B) Facilitating arm movement. C) Protecting the brain. D) Supporting the lower body and aiding leg movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Supporting the lower body and aiding leg movement. 2. What is #4 pointing to? A) Nasal. B) Frontal. C) Parietal. D) Lacrimal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nasal. 3. Which label is the diaphysis? A) B. B) A. C) D. D) C. E) E. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) B. 4. I consist of the skull, vertebrae and ribcage A) Appendicular skeleton. B) Axial skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axial skeleton. 5. Which is the upper leg bone? A) Femur. B) Fibula. C) Tibia. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Femur. 6. What is the primary function of the flat bones in the cranium? A) To provide large areas of attachment for muscles. B) To protect the brain. C) To allow for flexibility. D) To protect the heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To protect the brain. 7. The bones at the end of the fingers and toes are known as A) Carpals. B) Phalanges. C) Tarsals. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phalanges. 8. Strong flexible tissue that cushions joints A) Tendons. B) Fatty Tissue. C) Ligaments. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 9. Rounded process that usually articulates with another bone A) Condyle. B) Tuberosity. C) Facet. D) Foramen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Condyle. 10. What makes up our skeletal system? A) Bones. B) Cartilage. C) Connective tissue. D) All above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All above. 11. Which of the following is NOT a purpose for bone markings? A) Join bones together. B) Create openings for vessels and nerves. C) Provides surface for muscle attachment. D) Provides a foundation for hematopeiosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Provides a foundation for hematopeiosis. 12. The sternum is an example of this type of bone A) Long. B) Short. C) Flat. D) Sesamoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flat. 13. Which of the following is not an extracellular matrix protein? A) Acetylcholine. B) Proteoglycans. C) Collagen. D) Elastin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Acetylcholine. 14. What are simple fractures? A) Bone breaks but does not come through the skin. B) Bone breaks and comes through the skin. C) Bone bends but does not break. D) Bone dislocates from its joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bone breaks but does not come through the skin. 15. How many main types of bones are in the human skeleton? A) 300. B) 5. C) 206. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 4. 16. An inherited disorder mainly characterized by extreme fragile bones that are easily broken. A) Osteogenesis imperfecta. B) Down Syndrome. C) Angelman Subscription. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteogenesis imperfecta. 17. A synonym for structure is? A) Spongy. B) Framework. C) Grow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Framework. 18. Which bone is used to head the ball in football? A) Cranium. B) Fibula. C) Clavicle. D) Patella. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cranium. 19. The small bone that covers the knee joint is known as ..... A) The ribella. B) The fibula. C) The patella. D) The truthula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The patella. 20. What are the jobs of your bones? A) Movement, digestion, breathing, storing minerals, making blood. B) Movement, shape, storing minerals, joints, making blood,. C) Making blood, shape, digestion, breathing, storing minerals. D) Movement, shape, protection, making blood, storing minerals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Movement, shape, protection, making blood, storing minerals. 21. Muscle you cannot consciously control A) Voluntary. B) Cardiac. C) Smooth. D) Involuntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Involuntary. 22. When one muscle is working the other is A) Relaxing. B) Growing. C) Shrinking. D) Working. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relaxing. 23. The joints that is created where the femur and the pelvic girdle connect is an example of a ..... joint A) Saddle. B) Hinge. C) Ball and Socket. D) Pivot. E) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ball and Socket. 24. Which type of bone formation occurs in long bones? A) Intramembranous. B) Endochondral. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Endochondral. 25. A tiny channel that bring nourishment from the central canal to the osteocyte in the lacunae. A) Perforating canal. B) Volkmann's canal. C) Canals. D) Endosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Canals. 26. Non Magnetic Material is ..... A) Cobalt. B) Iron. C) Nickel. D) Aluminum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aluminum. 27. The bones work with the ..... to make us move. A) Cartilage. B) Lungs. C) Muscles. D) Stomach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muscles. 28. These skull bones lie on the top of the midsagittal plane: A) Parietal. B) Lacrimal. C) Zygomatic. D) Ethmoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Parietal. 29. Composed of the skull, the spinal and the chest bones A) Axial Skeleton. B) Appendicular Skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axial Skeleton. 30. The five bones in each hand that form the palms are called ..... A) Metacarpals. B) Metatarsals. C) Carpals. D) Tarsals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Metacarpals. 31. What does RBC stand for? A) Ridiculous Blood Count. B) Red Blood Cells. C) Rapid Blood Collection. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red Blood Cells. 32. What is the structure of a long bone, Aanya, Avni, and Eesha? A) Body, tail, and fins. B) Head, neck, and trochanter. C) Shaft (diaphysis), two ends (epiphyses), and a medullary cavity filled with bone marrow. D) Shaft (cortex), one end (epiphysis), and a hollow cavity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Shaft (diaphysis), two ends (epiphyses), and a medullary cavity filled with bone marrow. 33. What do you call to the bones in your spine? A) Cartilage. B) Ribs. C) Skull. D) Vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vertebrae. 34. Which bone cells involved in bone resorption for bone remodelling? A) Osteoprogenitor cell. B) Osteoclast. C) Osteoblast. D) Osteocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoclast. 35. Match the example to the job:Bones store 99% of the body's calcium. A) Gives you shape and support. B) Protects your inner organs. C) Forms blood cells. D) Stores minerals. E) Helps you move (with muscles). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stores minerals. 36. Hypertrophy is a long term effect on the muscular system, which muscle fibres experience hypertrophy after prolonged aerobic exercise A) Fast twitch. B) Both fast and slow twitch. C) Slow twitch. D) All muscle types. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Slow twitch. 37. What does osteoporosis do to bones? A) Strengthens the bones. B) Makes them brittle and weak. C) Does not allow bones to reproduce. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Makes them brittle and weak. 38. The natural home of an animal is called its: A) Water. B) Habitat. C) House. D) Nest. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Habitat. 39. What bone make up your finger in make your toes A) Tibia. B) Phalanges. C) Femur. D) Scapula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Phalanges. 40. Female bones tend to be: A) Strong and light. B) Smaller and less robust. C) Less white and weaker. D) Whiter and stronger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Smaller and less robust. 41. What provides shape and support to the body? A) Nervous system. B) Skeleton. C) Spinal cord. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skeleton. 42. X:This cells is actively undergo mitotic divisionY:Formed by fusion 50 monocyteswhat is X and Y? A) X:OsteoblastY:osteoprogenitor cell. B) X:OsteoblastY:osteoclast. C) X:osteoprogenitor cellY:osteoclast. D) X:OsteoclastY:osteoprogenitor cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) X:osteoprogenitor cellY:osteoclast. 43. Which part of the skeleton contains the most bones? A) Axial. B) Appendicular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appendicular. 44. The wrist is made up of bones called the ..... and are considered ..... bones. A) Metacarpals, short. B) Metatarsals, large. C) Tarsals, long. D) Carpals, short. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carpals, short. 45. Which of the following examples is not true protection? A) Skull = brain. B) Pelvis = kidneys. C) Ribs = lungs. D) Vertebrae = spinal column. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pelvis = kidneys. 46. Compression of the median nerve in the wrist can cause numbness and tingling in your hand and arm possibly leading to ..... A) Tendinitis. B) Fibromyalgia. C) Myasthenia gravis. D) Carpal tunnel syndrome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Carpal tunnel syndrome. 47. The largest bone of the leg is the: A) Fibula. B) Calcaneus. C) Femur. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Femur. 48. What is the correct name of this bone (in red): A) Thymus. B) Breastbone. C) Hyoid. D) Sternum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sternum. 49. Bones are Organs A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 50. A bone that breaks through the skin is A) An open fracture. B) A closed fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An open fracture. 51. ..... helps us to feel, touch and sense heat and forms a continuous layer around our entire body A) Tounge. B) Skin. C) Nose. D) Ear. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skin. 52. Bone markings are put into two categories: A) Projections and Processes. B) Projections and Depressions. C) Depressions and Tuberosities. D) Tuberosities and Fossas. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Projections and Depressions. 53. True/False:Break and fracture mean the same thing A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 54. Which type of fracture is due to weakness caused by a disease process? A) Greenstick. B) Comminuted. C) Pathologic. D) Open. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pathologic. 55. Our hands are the ..... limbs A) Fore. B) Hind. C) Femur. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fore. 56. The shoulder blade is called the A) Cranium. B) Mandible. C) Scapula. D) Patella. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scapula. 57. WHERE ARE THE NEW BLOOD CELLS FORMED? A) SPONGY BONE. B) COMPACT BONE. C) BONE MARROW. D) ALL OF THESE. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) BONE MARROW. 58. Which type of joint is found between the carpals and metacarpals in the wrist? A) Ball and socket joint. B) Hinge joint. C) Pivot joint. D) Condyloid joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Condyloid joint. 59. How do the dead cells of the epidermis help the body? A) Getting out of skin. B) Becoming part of the epidermal surface layer that protects skin. C) Stop producing vitamin D for the body. D) Eliminating all the wastes through perspiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Becoming part of the epidermal surface layer that protects skin. 60. The increase in the angle of a joint is ..... A) Extension. B) Flexion. C) Adduction. D) Abduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Extension. ← 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