This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 218 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 218 (45 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many small bones make the complete backbone? A) 30. B) 20. C) 22. D) 33. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 22. 2. Most bones of the skeleton are formed by ..... A) Gender specific ossification. B) Hyaline ossification. C) Endochondral ossification. D) Intramembranous ossification. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endochondral ossification. 3. What is the term for a bone broken completely and piercing the skin? A) Communited Fracture. B) Open Fracture. C) Closed Fracture. D) Hairline Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Open Fracture. 4. True or False-Skeletal muscle is voluntary. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 5. T/F:Teeth are bones A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 6. Name the fracture when the parts of the bone do not seperate. A) Hairline. B) Transverse. C) Comminuted. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hairline. 7. What is the slippery surface that cover the bones? A) Synovial fluid. B) Ligament. C) Synovial membrane. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 8. Our bones have to balance their rigidity & hardness with a flexibility component in order to ensure the bone is not too brittle. Which component is most responsible for this elasticity or flexibility? A) Potassium. B) Calcium phosphate. C) Sodium. D) Collagen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Collagen. 9. Severe bone pain caused by abnormally shaped red blood cells that obstruct circulation is a symptom of what disease? A) Myocardial infarction. B) Sickle cell disease. C) Peripheral artery disease. D) Leiomyoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sickle cell disease. 10. Bones are alive and can heal. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 11. ..... and vitamin D are especially important A) Vitamin E. B) Calcium. C) Vitamin C. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calcium. 12. Body of a long bone A) Long bone. B) Diaphysis. C) Epiphysis. D) Flat bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diaphysis. 13. Which bones prostec and support the intestines of the digestive system? A) Vertebrae. B) Rib cage. C) Skull. D) Pelvis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pelvis. 14. Action that are controlled by the spinal cord A) Head action. B) Back acton. C) Body action. D) Reflex action. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Reflex action. 15. Projections of spongey bone are known as A) Osteons. B) Canaliculi. C) Diaphysis. D) Beams. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beams. 16. There are ..... in a baby's bone. A) 206. B) 530. C) 300. D) 603. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 300. 17. This disorder is from a vitamin deficiency and causes soft and weak bones usually in children: A) Gout. B) Osteoarthritis. C) Dislocation. D) Rickets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rickets. 18. What type of joints are at the top of your skull? A) Cartilaginous (slightly moveable). B) Elastic. C) Fibrous (immovable). D) Synovial (freely moveable). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fibrous (immovable). 19. The ..... is located at each end of the a long bone A) Semiphysis. B) Diaphysis. C) Epiphysis. D) Doctophysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epiphysis. 20. The 2 bones that make up the lower leg. A) Ulna and Radius. B) Fibula and Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fibula and Tibia. 21. Allow bones to move in almost any direction A) Pivotal joint. B) Ball and socket joint. C) Hinge joint. D) Gliding joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ball and socket joint. 22. Concentric layers of calcified extracellular matrix making up what you think of as "bone tissue" A) Central Canal. B) Lamellae. C) Canals. D) Lacunae. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lamellae. 23. True or false:Your body has more red marrow when you're younger than when you're older. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 24. Which connective tissue is found in between joints for cushioning? A) Ligament. B) Cartilage. C) Tendon. D) Clavicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cartilage. 25. Which term means a degenerative disorder that can cause the loss of normal spinal structure and function? A) Spondylitis. B) Spondylolisthesis. C) Spondylosis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spondylosis. 26. Joint that is similar to ball and socket that allows for oval like rotation A) Ball and socket. B) Conyloid. C) Plane. D) Hinge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conyloid. 27. Your coccyx is better known as the ..... A) Tail bone. B) Kneecap. C) Hip bone. D) Jaw bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tail bone. 28. How does the cast help heal a broken bone? A) The cast is for protection to the broken bone so it doesn't get bumped and hurt even more. B) The cast keeps the broken bones in place giving it a chance to heal. C) The cast is only used if you break your arm. Doctors don't put casts anywhere else. D) If we didn't have casts, when you broke your bone, it would never heal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The cast keeps the broken bones in place giving it a chance to heal. 29. Organize the body from simple to most complex. A) Cells, tissues, organs, organism. B) Cells, tissues, organs, organ system, organism. C) Cells, organ, organ system, tissue, organism. D) Organism, organ system, organs, tissues, cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cells, tissues, organs, organ system, organism. 30. Bone category that provide support and aid in movement which has 126 bones in total A) Appendicular. B) Axial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appendicular. 31. Where are the gliding joints? A) Where the vertebrae and ribs meet. B) The base of the skull and top vertebrae. C) Between the shoulder blades. D) In the elbows. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Where the vertebrae and ribs meet. 32. The suffix "-algia" means: A) Pain. B) Away from. C) Cartilage. D) Crooked. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pain. 33. The elbow, knee, and between phalanges joints are examples of ..... joints. A) Pivot. B) Ball and socket. C) Hinge. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinge. 34. What is an example of a "Flat" bone? A) Thin, flattened, and usually a bit curved. B) Have weird shapes that do not fit other 3 classes. C) Much longer than they are wide. D) Cube-like in shape. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thin, flattened, and usually a bit curved. 35. Important vitamin to keep the bones healthy. A) Vitamin D. B) Vitamin C. C) Vitamin B. D) Vitamin A. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vitamin D. 36. The mandible is also known as A) Knees. B) Head. C) Shoulder. D) Jaw. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jaw. 37. Children's have more ..... than adults A) Yellow bone marrow. B) Green bone marrow. C) Red bone marrow. D) Blue bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red bone marrow. 38. What does the skeletal system store that is essential for various body functions? A) Minerals. B) Vitamins. C) Carbohydrates. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Minerals. 39. Help manipulate the environment A) Phalanges (hands). B) Phalanges (feet). C) Mandible. D) Skull. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phalanges (hands). 40. What does the periosteum contain? A) Only blood vessels. B) Only nerves. C) Blood and lymph vessels, as well as nerves. D) Only lymph vessels. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood and lymph vessels, as well as nerves. 41. "Scoli/o" means: A) Cartilage. B) Crooked, stiff. C) Curved, bent. D) Tie together. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Curved, bent. 42. Besides bones. the skeletal system consists of which structures? A) All are correct. B) Joints. C) Ligaments. D) Cartilage. E) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) All are correct. 43. Broken bone that does not protrude through the skin A) Open/Compound Fracture. B) Closed/Simple Fracture. C) Greenstick Fracture. D) Comminuted Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Closed/Simple Fracture. 44. How many bones fuse together to make the cranium A) 21. B) 20. C) 26. D) 24. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 21. 45. What is the purpose of the vertebral column? A) The purpose of the vertebral column is to store fat and provide insulation. B) The purpose of the vertebral column is to aid in digestion and absorption of nutrients. C) The purpose of the vertebral column is to provide support, protection, and flexibility to the spinal cord and to serve as an attachment point for muscles and ligaments. D) The purpose of the vertebral column is to produce red blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The purpose of the vertebral column is to provide support, protection, and flexibility to the spinal cord and to serve as an attachment point for muscles and ligaments. ← PreviousRelated 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