This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System β Quiz 217 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 217 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Internal Part of the Skeleton A) Joints. B) Exoskeleton. C) Endoskeleton. D) Carpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endoskeleton. 2. The digestive system uses these types of muscles to aid in digestion? A) Smooth. B) Cardiac. C) Skeletal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smooth. 3. Which type of bone cells are responsible for "reabsorption bone" ? A) Osteoclasts. B) Osteons. C) Osteocytes. D) Osteoblasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoclasts. 4. Which bone is located in your ear? A) Syrup. B) Stirrup. C) Humerus. D) Carpus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stirrup. 5. Of the 3 types of muscle, which is found in hollow organs such as the stomach, intestines, and bladder. A) Skeletal Muscle. B) Cardiac Muscle. C) Smooth Muscle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smooth Muscle. 6. Bone remodeling is a process when old, brittle bone tissue is removed or resorbed and replace by new tissue. A) Correct. B) Incorrect. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Correct. 7. What are the types of shapes? A) Long, Short, Irregular, Flat. B) Small, circle, Triangular, Big. C) Square, Rectangle, oval, trapezoid. D) Polygon, parallelograms, sphere, hexagon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long, Short, Irregular, Flat. 8. They attach our bones to muscles so we can move around. What are they? A) Tendons. B) Cartilage. C) Ligaments. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tendons. 9. Chemical composition of INORGANIC bone is? A) 35% component. B) 40% component. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 40% component. 10. What is the term for the end of a long bone? A) Epiphysis. B) Clavicles. C) Foramina. D) Joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epiphysis. 11. True or FalseChildren are born with 300+ bones that later fuse together. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 12. This layer lies directly beneath the compact bone: A) Bone Marrow. B) Periosteum. C) Soft bone. D) Cancellous (spongy) bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cancellous (spongy) bone. 13. Bone remodeling is a process by both osteoblasts and osteoclasts. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 14. Human being have..... bones A) 300. B) 206. C) 250. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 15. Supports mouth parts for chewing A) Mandible. B) Clavicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Mandible. 16. During a biology class, Liam, Olivia, and David were discussing bone cells. They were trying to figure out which type of bone cell is the most common and found in chambers called lacunae. Can you help them? A) Osteoclast. B) Osteoblast. C) Osteogenic. D) Osteocyte. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteocyte. 17. The functional unit that makes up compact bone is called the A) Osteon. B) Osteocyte. C) Beams. D) Central Canal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteon. 18. The appendicular skeleton forms the skeleton of the upper and lower limbs. A) Phalanges. B) Extremities. C) Carpals. D) Metatarsals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Extremities. 19. What dense connective tissue is found in joints and prevents bones from wearing against one another? A) Cartilage. B) Myofibril. C) Tendon. D) Bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 20. Osteocytes are enclosed in tiny chambers called A) Lacunae. B) Lamella. C) Volkmann canals. D) Canaliculi. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lacunae. 21. Which type of muscle is striped and attached to bones? A) Cardiac. B) Smooth. C) Skeletal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal. 22. Isaac injured his bicep playing football. The doctor told him that a rupture resulted in a detached bicep muscle. What structure most likely ruptured? A) A tendon. B) A ligament. C) Cartilage. D) The humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A tendon. 23. The upper arm bone is what bone? A) Tibia. B) Radius. C) Femur. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Humerus. 24. ..... is defined as bone formation in nonosseous tissues (usually muscles and other soft tissue areas). A) Osteoarthritis. B) Legg-CalvΓ©-Perthes Disease. C) Chondrolysis. D) Heterotopic ossification (HO). Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Heterotopic ossification (HO). 25. When the pelvis is wider than the shoulders after age 10, the skeleton belongs to a A) Male. B) Female. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Female. 26. The ..... protects your brain A) Tail. B) Skull. C) Skin. D) Back. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skull. 27. Bones are filled with jelly like substances called A) Blood. B) Spongy. C) Bone marrow. D) Jelly bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bone marrow. 28. Which statement is FALSE about spongy bone? Which statement is FALSE about spongy bone? A) Spongy bone looks like a sponge. B) The holes make your bone lighter so it's not too heavy. C) The holes allow for arteries, veins, and nerves. D) Spongy bone is soft like a sponge. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spongy bone is soft like a sponge. 29. The 4 main types of movable joints? A) Ball socket, long bone, hinge, small bone. B) Ball and socket, hinge, pivot, gliding. C) Hinge, long bone, compact, spongy. D) Small bone, pivot, hinge, ball and socket. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ball and socket, hinge, pivot, gliding. 30. Which kind of muscle can move our bones? A) Skeletal muscle. B) Cardiac muscle. C) Smooth muscle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal muscle. 31. Does it take more muscles to smile or frown? A) More muscles to frown. B) More musles to smile. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) More muscles to frown. 32. Avery, Benjamin, and Kai are having a debate about the humerus. What type of bone is the humerus an example of? A) Irregular bones. B) Long bones. C) Spongy bones. D) Metacarpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long bones. 33. Flat triangular bones that connect to the upper arms. A) Scapula. B) Pelvis. C) Radius. D) Spine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scapula. 34. Which cells are responsible for making bone in the skeletal system? A) Osteoclasts. B) Osteoblasts. C) Chondroblasts. D) Chondrocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoblasts. 35. Where two or more bones connect. A) Joint. B) Ligament. C) Cartilage. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joint. 36. Bones of equal length, width & height are classified as ..... A) Irregular Bones. B) Sesamoid Bones. C) Short bones. D) Compact Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Short bones. 37. True or false:Bones are living things. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 38. Which type of muscle is found in internal organs, such as the digestive system A) Skeletal. B) Smooth. C) Cardiac. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Smooth. 39. How many bones are there in the human spinal column A) 32. B) 30. C) 31. D) 33. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 33. 40. Which body system provides support for the body? A) Muscular. B) Circulatory. C) Nervous. D) Skeletal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skeletal. 41. More cube shaped; as wide as they are long A) Flat bones. B) Short bones. C) Long bones. D) Irregular bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short bones. 42. 99% of this mineral is stored in the skeletal system A) Phosphorus. B) Magnesium. C) Potassium. D) Calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calcium. 43. The adult skeletal system is composed of how many bones? A) 371. B) 216. C) 206. D) 199. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 206. 44. Which of the following are cartilaginous joints? A) Sutures. B) Gomphoses. C) Synchondroses. D) Connection. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Synchondroses. 45. An organ that can contract, relax and provide the force to move your body parts A) Cartilage. B) Muscle. C) Ligament. D) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muscle. 46. The small 26 bones that make up the backbone are the ..... A) Skull. B) Pelvic girdle. C) Backbone. D) Vertebrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vertebrate. 47. What is step 3 of bone repair? A) Within 8 hours a blood clot forms between the broken ends and new bone begins to form. B) No new bone forms between the broken ends. C) The blood clot forms after 24 hours. D) The bone is immediately repaired. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Within 8 hours a blood clot forms between the broken ends and new bone begins to form. 48. Which type of bone is primarily composed of spongy, cancellous tissue and includes bones such as the vertebrae? A) Flat. B) Short. C) Long. D) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irregular. 49. What is the correct name of the heel bone? A) Cuboid. B) Talus. C) Calcaneus. D) Navicular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calcaneus. 50. Which of the following is a sesamoid bone? A) Femur. B) Patella. C) Humerus. D) Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Patella. 51. Shinbone (bigger lower leg bone) A) Tibia. B) Coccyx. C) Pelvis. D) Tarsals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tibia. 52. What is the word for the definition Slipping? A) Orth/o. B) Lord/o. C) -listhesis. D) TKA. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) -listhesis. 53. The bones lengthen in youth at this point of the bone. A) Medullary cavity. B) Epiphysis. C) Diaphysis. D) Epiphyseal plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epiphyseal plate. 54. Look at this picture carefully. Name the bone on number 5! A) Vertebra. B) Radius. C) Pelvis. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Femur. 55. Chondromalacia patellae is a condition in which the dorsal (back) surface of the patella is exposed and grinds against the femur and tibia. What structure has deteriorated to make this happen? A) F. blood vessels. B) H. ligaments tagsSAP2. C) G. nerves. D) E. cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) E. cartilage. 56. These joints do not allow any movement A) Ball and socket joints. B) Pivot Joints. C) Immovable Joints. D) Gliding Joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Immovable Joints. 57. The sternum is ..... to the ribs A) Medial. B) Posterior. C) Anterior. D) Lateral. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Medial. 58. What is the purpose of intervertebral discs that separate spinal vertebrae? A) To elongate the spine. B) To reduce movement of the spine. C) To provide cushion and absorb shock. D) To prevent further growth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To provide cushion and absorb shock. 59. Why are the spaces in between your rib cage and the slight bend of your spine important? A) They allow the skeletal system to be flexible. B) They help you to stand up taller. C) They help you breathe better. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They allow the skeletal system to be flexible. 60. What is the name of the membrane that covers bones? A) Cartilage. B) Periosteum. C) Joint. D) None of above. 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