This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System β Quiz 3 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 3 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. This tissue covers the ends of bones and helps build new bone as babies grow. A) Ligaments. B) Tendons. C) Cartilage. D) Joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilage. 2. How many vertebrae do we have in the thoracic spine? A) 7. B) 12. C) 5. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 12. 3. Cartilage plate located near the ends of bone. Bones become longer during childhood and adolescence because new cartilage is continually being added to the outer surface of the ..... ? A) Osteoclast. B) Osteoblasts. C) Epiphyseal plate. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epiphyseal plate. 4. There are ..... pairs of bone in rib or ribcage A) 13. B) 17. C) 11. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12. 5. What are two things that each bone has? A) Germs and skin. B) Muscles and hair. C) Tendons and ligaments. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tendons and ligaments. 6. The kneecap (patella) is a A) Sesamoid bone. B) Smooth bone. C) Flat bone. D) Irregular bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sesamoid bone. 7. How many bones make up the skeleton? A) 206. B) 208. C) 204. D) 210. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 206. 8. The ..... is made up of arms, wrists, hands, fingers, legs, ankles, feet, and toes. A) Axial. B) Appendicular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appendicular. 9. ..... glands stimulate osteoblasts to take calcium from blood and allocate it in bones ..... glands stimulate cells to remove calcium from bones so tissues can use it. A) Parathyroid/ thyroid. B) Thyroid/parathyroid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thyroid/parathyroid. 10. What is the purpose of our joints? A) Move and bend. B) Jump and Taste. C) Move and Think. D) Bend and Sleep. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Move and bend. 11. Which is biggest bone in the face? A) Stirrup. B) Jaw bone. C) Femur. D) Cranial bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Jaw bone. 12. What is the long bone that serves as a strut between your shoulder blade and your sternum called? A) Patella. B) Femur. C) Clavicle. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clavicle. 13. If you have Type A blood but you get a full bone marrow transplant from someone with Type O blood, what will be the result? A) You will have Type O blood for the rest of your life. B) You will have Type AO blood. C) You will die due to the incompatibility of the blood types. D) You will continue to have Type A blood as usual. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You will have Type O blood for the rest of your life. 14. The femur is the long bone located in your ..... ? A) Arm. B) Leg. C) Head. D) Back. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Leg. 15. What is the upper arm bone that runs from the shoulder to the elbow? A) Sternum. B) Femur. C) Humerus. D) Cranium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humerus. 16. Curve, swayback, bent A) Caf/o. B) Lord/o. C) School. D) Ankyl/o. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lord/o. 17. How many bones are in a foot? A) 33. B) 27. C) 26. D) 36. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 26. 18. As a an adult, some people have extra bones, while others lack certain bones. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 19. Which of the following is a joint that allows extension and flexing, like the knee? A) Hinge Joint. B) Ball-and-Socket Joint. C) Plane Joint. D) Pivot Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinge Joint. 20. What kind of joint is the wrist joint? A) Condyloid. B) Hinge. C) Gliding. D) Saddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Condyloid. 21. Where is bone marrow found? A) In our brains. B) Within the spaces between our bones. C) In our teeth. D) Finger nails. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Within the spaces between our bones. 22. The sternum is an example of a ..... bone. A) Long. B) Flat. C) Short. D) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat. 23. The shoulder 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. New skin cells are constantly being made at the ..... of the epidermis. A) Base. B) Top. C) They are not made in the epidermis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Base. 25. How many bones is the skull made up of? ..... bones A) 100. B) 22. C) 90. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 22. 26. The skin is the largest organ of your body. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 27. Connects muscle to bone A) Ligaments. B) Smooth muscle. C) Cartilage. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tendon. 28. The CARTILAGE is: A) A place where two or more bones of the skeleton meet. B) Elastic tissue that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints. C) Connective tissue connecting one bone to another bone. D) Connective tissue connecting one bone to muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elastic tissue that covers and protects the ends of long bones at the joints. 29. The shaft of the long bone A) Diaphysis. B) Epiphysis. C) Epiphyseal line. D) Growth plate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diaphysis. 30. Mature bone cells that are spread out in the bone tissue A) Osteoclasts. B) Osteogenic cells. C) Osteoblasts. D) Osteocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteocytes. 31. The spine ribs and sternum protect the organs contained in what cavity? A) Buccal. B) Pelvic. C) Thoracic. D) Abdominal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Thoracic. 32. Yellow bone marrow, location A) Found in the spongy bone of the sternum, ribs, vertebrae, and pelvis, as well as in the cavities of long bones of infants and children. B) Found in the central cavitiesof long bones, especially inadults. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Found in the central cavitiesof long bones, especially inadults. 33. Densely layered collagen fibers are known as: A) Ligaments. B) Joints. C) Connective tissue. D) Tendencies. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Connective tissue. 34. Components of appendicular system A) Clavicle, scapula, humerus, ulna, radius, carpal bones,. B) Skull and associated bones, sternum, ribs, vertebral column. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clavicle, scapula, humerus, ulna, radius, carpal bones,. 35. Gliding func and movement A) Allows sliding or twistingmovements.Movements:sliding and twisting. Example:intercarpal and intertarsaljoints. B) My hands-do they look like they shaking to you? Noπ«¨. C) Michael Jackson is deadπ can u believe itπ©. D) Allows for a wide rangeof movement in manydirections; supportsactivities such asswinging or rotation ofthe limbs.Movement:Rotation. Example:shoulder and hip joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Allows sliding or twistingmovements.Movements:sliding and twisting. Example:intercarpal and intertarsaljoints. 36. Which of the following animals are carnivores? Which of the following animals is a carnivore? I Tiger II Eagle III Rabbit IV Chicken Chicken A) I and II I dan II. B) I and IV I dan IV. C) II and III II and III. D) III and IV III dan IV. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I and II I dan II. 37. What do your ribs protect? A) Lungs. B) Heart. C) Brain. D) Lungs and Heart. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lungs and Heart. 38. A joint is a place where two bones ..... A) Come together. B) Fall apart. C) Hang out. D) Break. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Come together. 39. The vertebrae are ..... joints. A) Hinge. B) Ball & socket. C) Gliding. D) Saddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Gliding. 40. It is a term used when an animal sleeps for several months to protect itself from heat. A) Hibernation. B) Digestion. C) Aestivation. D) Respiration. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Aestivation. 41. The bone on the pinkie side of your arm is the A) Humerus. B) Radius. C) Femur. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ulna. 42. At what age do our bones totally develop? A) Between 1 to 11 years. B) 2 months to 1 year. C) Between 11-20 years. D) After 20 years. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Between 11-20 years. 43. Sideways curvature of the spine ..... A) Lordosis. B) Scoliosis. C) Osteomyelitis. D) Kyphosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scoliosis. 44. What is the name of the kneecap bone? A) Tibia. B) Femur. C) Patella. D) Fibula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Patella. 45. Human have this type of skeleton. A) Exoskeleton. B) Hydroskeleton. C) Endoskeleton. D) Hyposkeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endoskeleton. 46. .... are the places where two or more bones meet. A) Joint. B) Skull. C) Backbone. D) All of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joint. 47. Where can you find a hinge joint? A) Hip. B) Wrist. C) Neck. D) Knee. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Knee. 48. A strong band of tissue that holds bones together. A) Joint. B) Patella. C) Ligament. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ligament. 49. What is the anatomical term of motion/movement for turning around an axis? A) Supination. B) Rotation. C) Extension. D) Circumduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rotation. 50. This disease is the result of the loss in bone density due to the hyperactivity of osteoblasts or under activity of osteoblasts typically associated with aging. A) Rheumatoid Arthritis. B) Gouty Arthritis. C) Rickets. D) Osteoporosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteoporosis. 51. Your brain is protected by A) Skull. B) Vertebrae. C) Ribs. D) Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skull. 52. Skeletal system..... A) Supports and shapes the body. B) Works with muscles to help you move. C) Helps protect important organs. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the above. 53. This is the part of the bone that is very porous: A) Spongy bone. B) Periosteum. C) Blood vessels. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spongy bone. 54. Type of cartilage the covers the ends of bones A) Hyaline. B) Periosteum. C) Endosteum. D) Articular cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyaline. 55. The bony box that encloses brain. A) Skull. B) Cranium. C) The brain. D) Backbone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cranium. 56. Most flexible cartilage. Found in the ear lobe A) Elastic Cartilage. B) Hyaline Cartilage. C) Fibrocartilage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Elastic Cartilage. 57. There are how many bones in the typical human skeleton? A) 312. B) 106. C) 206. D) 216. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 206. 58. WHICH BONES ARE FOUND IN THE LOWER ARM A) TIBIA AND FIBULA. B) RADIUS AND ULNA. C) TARSALS AND METATARSALS. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) RADIUS AND ULNA. 59. The only bone in the human body that cannot heal itself? A) Clavicle. B) Teeth. C) Ribs. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Teeth. 60. Which bones protect our heart and lungs? A) Cerebrum. B) Blood. C) Ribs. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ribs. β PreviousNext βRelated QuizzesScience QuizzesGeneral Knowledge QuizzesSkeletal System Quiz 1Skeletal System Quiz 2Skeletal System Quiz 4Skeletal System Quiz 5Skeletal System Quiz 6Skeletal System Quiz 7Skeletal System Quiz 8Skeletal System Quiz 9 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books