This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 24 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 24 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Support, appendicular A) Support head and trunk, hold upthe body. B) Support appendages, facilitate movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Support appendages, facilitate movement. 2. How many bones are there normally in your skeleton? A) 206. B) 220. C) 200. D) 300. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 206. 3. What kind of ribs do not attach to the sternum? A) True. B) Floating. C) Detached. D) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Floating. 4. Which layer of skin contains the blood vessels, glands, and hair follicles? A) Epidermis. B) Dermis. C) Fat Layer. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dermis. 5. What attaches bone to bone? A) Ligament. B) Skull. C) Tendon. D) Muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ligament. 6. Tough bands of tissue that hold bones together A) Joint. B) Muscle. C) Ligament. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ligament. 7. What is located on the back of the shoulder? A) Ulna. B) Scapula. C) Clavicle. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scapula. 8. This bone forms the elbow joint A) Fibula. B) Ulna. C) Humerus. D) Radius. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ulna. 9. What is the tough band of tissue that connects long bones together at joints called? A) Ligaments. B) Fibula. C) Medullary Canal. D) Carpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ligaments. 10. Why do babies have more bones? A) Smaller bones grow together to form larger bones when they are older. B) Babies are bigger. C) Babies just always have more bones. D) All the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smaller bones grow together to form larger bones when they are older. 11. Hyaline cartilage covering bone ends at movable joints A) Articular cartilage. B) Cartilaginous joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Articular cartilage. 12. How many bones do you have when you grow up (adult)? A) 300. B) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 13. Which of the following is a flat bone? A) . B) . Show Answer Correct Answer: A) . 14. Blood cell creations takes place in which part of the bone? A) Osteons. B) Yellow marrow. C) Red marrow. D) Cortical bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red marrow. 15. Contain mostly spongy bone with an outer layer of compact bone A) Long Bone. B) Flat Bone. C) Irregular Bone. D) Short Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Short Bone. 16. Which is NOT a function of synovial fluid? A) Lubricates the articulating cartilage. B) Keeps the bones from being pulled apart. C) Acts as a shock absorber. D) Nourishes the chondrocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Keeps the bones from being pulled apart. 17. What percent bone loss is experienced by astronauts in space? A) 1-2% per month. B) 1-2% per week. C) 20% per day. D) 1-2% per year. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 1-2% per month. 18. How many bones are found in the adult human body? A) 155. B) 255. C) 100. D) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 206. 19. What is not a function of the skeletal system? A) Shape and support. B) Break down nutrients. C) Protect organs. D) Produce blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Break down nutrients. 20. The doctor who deals with bones is called A) Ophthalmologist. B) General physician. C) Orthopedic surgeon. D) Neurosurgeon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Orthopedic surgeon. 21. What type of Joint? ELBOWS AND KNEES A) Ball and Socket. B) Hinge Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge Joint. 22. What is the connective tissue cord that attaches muscle to bone? A) Ligament. B) Epimysium. C) Fascia. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tendon. 23. Bones are held together by tendon. A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No. 24. What type of skeletal joint is the knee? A) Ball & socket. B) Pivot. C) Hinge. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinge. 25. How many connecting tissues are there? A) 5. B) 10. C) 2. D) 100. E) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) 3. 26. The shaft or the central part of a long bone is called A) Articular cartilage. B) Infusion. C) Periosteum. D) Diaphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diaphysis. 27. Yellow bone marrow is located in the ..... and contains ..... A) Epiphyses; osteocytes. B) Medullary cavity; red blood cells. C) Medullary cavity; fat. D) Epiphyses; fat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medullary cavity; fat. 28. Where are many small bones situated in our body? A) Bones of arm. B) Floating ribs. C) Palm and fingers. D) Stirrup. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Palm and fingers. 29. Two bones in the skull A) Cranium and Mandible. B) Cranium and Ulna. C) Mandible and Uvula. D) Femur and Coccyx. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cranium and Mandible. 30. Carpals and tarsals (flat bones) are examples of this type of joint A) Hinge. B) Gliding. C) Saddle. D) Condyloid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gliding. 31. A ..... joint can be found in the elbow and the knee. A) Hinge. B) Ball and Socket. C) Circular. D) Germain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinge. 32. You should always splint joints ..... and ..... the injured site. A) On and under. B) Proximal and distal. C) Above and below. D) Interior and exterior. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Above and below. 33. Example of Pivot joint is ..... A) Wrist and ankle. B) Joint between the head and first vertebra. C) Knee. D) Shoulder. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joint between the head and first vertebra. 34. Young male horse A) Filly. B) Colt. C) Stallion. D) Mare. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Colt. 35. What bone connects the lower appendicular skeleton to the axial skeleton? A) Radius. B) Femur. C) Ulna. D) Pelvis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pelvis. 36. A plane that divides the body into left and right portion. A) Coronal plane. B) Sagittal plane. C) Mid coronal plane. D) Mid sagittal plane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sagittal plane. 37. Hey friends, let's have some fun! Which organ helps us to taste delicious food? A) Tongue. B) Teeth. C) Mouth. D) Leg. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tongue. 38. Name "h" (lines the inner cavity) A) Medullary Cavity. B) Compact Bone. C) Endosteum. D) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endosteum. 39. True or false:Teeth are bones A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 40. Bones affect our body shape.People can have different heights is caused of bones' shape. What type of function describes the explanation above? A) Gives the body its shape. B) Allows the body to move. C) Protects and supports organs. D) Produces blood cells in bone marrow. E) Stores and releases minerals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gives the body its shape. 41. The bone in the head that joins all bones of the cranium together is called: A) Lacrimal. B) Cranium. C) Sphenoid. D) Ethmoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sphenoid. 42. Bone in the tip of each finger A) Metacarpal. B) Distal phalanx. C) Middle phalanx. D) Proximal phalanx. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Distal phalanx. 43. What is the bone the smallest bone in the body? A) Fibula. B) Stirrup. C) Femur. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stirrup. 44. The skeletal system is made up of bones, joints and ..... A) Intestines. B) Connective tissues. C) Framework. D) Nerve endings. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connective tissues. 45. The jaw or mandible is a ..... joint. A) Pivot. B) Cartilaginous. C) Fibrous. D) Synovial. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Synovial. 46. Suture is located in skull is ..... joint A) Movable. B) Immovable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Immovable. 47. Which of the following is one of the functions of the human skeleton? A) Produce hormones. B) Removing waste from the body. C) Bringing gases into the body. D) Providing a site for blood cell formation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Providing a site for blood cell formation. 48. Q-There are ..... number of bones in a baby. A) 400. B) 300. C) 200. D) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 300. 49. The heavy, long bone that forms the leg above the knee is called the ..... A) Femur. B) Patella. C) Tibia. D) Fibula. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Femur. 50. What type of fracture does not break through the skin? A) Complete Fracture. B) Simple Fracture. C) Incomplete Fracture. D) Compound Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Simple Fracture. 51. Intervertebral Discs A) Amphiarthrotic. B) Synarthrotic. C) Diarthrotic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amphiarthrotic. 52. You have just torn a body part responsible for connecting your patella to your tibia. This requires a: A) Bone repair. B) Muscle repair. C) Ligament repair. D) Tendon repair. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ligament repair. 53. The appendicular skeleton includes all BUT ..... A) Arms & Legs. B) Fingers &Toes. C) Shoulders. D) Pelvis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fingers &Toes. 54. What type of fracture is the result of overuse or instability of the bone? A) Commuted. B) Hairline. C) Simple. D) Stress. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Stress. 55. What is the difference between a spongy bone and a compact bone? A) The spongy bone is hard and dense, the compact bone has small holes in it. B) The compact bone is hard and dense, the spongy bone has small holes in it. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The compact bone is hard and dense, the spongy bone has small holes in it. 56. Name the "holes" in your skull ..... these hold air, making it easier for your vertebral column to hold up your skull. Sometimes these get infected. A) Fountains. B) Joints. C) Tendons. D) Sinuses. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sinuses. 57. How is your big toe and thumb different? A) Special joint in your thumb makes it opposable. B) Taste and smell. C) Color and texture. D) Size and shape. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Special joint in your thumb makes it opposable. 58. What is the function of osteocalcin? A) To break down old bone tissue. B) To build new bone tissue. C) To produce blood cells. D) To regulate bone formation and protect against glucose intolerance and diabetes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To regulate bone formation and protect against glucose intolerance and diabetes. 59. Where is yellow marrow found? A) Compact bone. B) The endosteium. C) The diaphysis. D) Medullary cavity/canal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Medullary cavity/canal. 60. How many bones does a human have at birth? A) About 220. B) About 300. C) About 375. D) 406. 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