This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 30 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 30 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Pertaining to the lumbar region of the spine (L1 to L5). A) Arthritis. B) Osteosarcoma. C) Lumbar. D) Dyskinesia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lumbar. 2. The thigh bone (femur) is a A) Short bone. B) Long bone. C) Flat bone. D) Irregular bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long bone. 3. Which bone is greater in length than width? A) Long Bone. B) Short Bone. C) Irregular Bone. D) Flat Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long Bone. 4. This is a fracture of the distal radius. A) Colles' Fracture. B) Parietal Fracture. C) Lordotic Fracture. D) Shoal Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Colles' Fracture. 5. Did you do your homework? { Be Honest } A) Yes. B) No. C) Maybe so. D) Not really. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yes. 6. This type of joint allows arms and hips to move in a circular direction A) Hinge. B) Pivot. C) Ball and socket. D) Bending. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ball and socket. 7. Dissolve bone tissue A) Osteoclasts. B) Osteoblasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoclasts. 8. The collarbone is called what? A) Clavicle. B) Patella. C) Mandible. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clavicle. 9. What are the functions of the Muscular System? A) Skeletal muscle, smooth muscle, cardiac muscle. B) Support, protection, movement, storage, blood cell production. C) Produce movement, maintain posture, stabilize joints, generate heat. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Produce movement, maintain posture, stabilize joints, generate heat. 10. Which of these is not a joint? A) Tarsals. B) Fibrous. C) Cartilaginous. D) Synovial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tarsals. 11. Where separate bones come together and allow the body (arms, legs, fingers, etc.) to bend A) Cartilage. B) Joints. C) Torso. D) Skull. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joints. 12. What part is this? A) Kidney. B) Heart. C) Lungs. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lungs. 13. I am spongy and on the inside of your bone ..... What am I? A) X-ray. B) Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Marrow. 14. The scientific name for "collarbone" is A) Vertebra. B) Tibia. C) Clavicle. D) Metacarpal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clavicle. 15. Bones that have a flat surface area used to protect organs eg. ribs A) Sesamoid. B) Flat. C) Short. D) Irregular. E) Long. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat. 16. Which of these tissues connects bones to bones? A) Ligaments. B) Tendons. C) Joints. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ligaments. 17. The largest organ of the body. A) Heart. B) Skin. C) Lungs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skin. 18. Yellow bone marrow contains a large percentage of ..... A) Elastic tissue. B) Osteoblasts. C) Fat. D) Blood-forming cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fat. 19. The study of hematopoiesis: A) Can help scientist understand how bone is formed. B) Can help scientists and clinicians to understand better the processes behind blood disorders and cancers. C) Can help scientist understand the recovery process after a mild injury. D) Can help scientist determine the number of days it destroy bone in osteoporosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Can help scientists and clinicians to understand better the processes behind blood disorders and cancers. 20. Which of the following movement does not involve the use of muscles and joints? A) The nodding of head. B) The bending of fingers. C) The blinking of eyes. D) Kneeling down. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The blinking of eyes. 21. What kind of joint is found in the knee? A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge. C) Rodeo. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge. 22. What type of joint is connected by cartilage and has slight movement? A) Fibrous. B) Synovial. C) Cartilaginous. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilaginous. 23. How many Tarsal Bones are there in the foot? A) 5. B) 7. C) 8. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 7. 24. What is one function of the skeletal system? A) Digestion. B) Think. C) Support. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Support. 25. What division of the skeleton would we find the Skull? A) Appendicular. B) Axial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axial. 26. Outermost layer that repairs broken bones. A) Periosteum. B) Yellow Marrow. C) Red Marrow. D) Spongy Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Periosteum. 27. What do your bones protect? A) Organs. B) Muscles. C) Ligaments. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Organs. 28. Which bone is found in the appendicular skeleton? A) Femur. B) Ribs. C) Cranium. D) Vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Femur. 29. What is the part of the skeletal system in the brain A) The claviquels. B) The cramium. C) Is the patela. D) The fibula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The cramium. 30. Medical root word for ribs. A) Arthr/o. B) Cost. C) Chondr/o. D) So that. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cost. 31. *Storing and releasing minerals. is a function of the skeletal system? A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 32. What type of fracture is it called when the bone penetrates the skin? A) Simple. B) Closed. C) Greenstick. D) Compund. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compund. 33. The body's tendons are the places where bones meet A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 34. Which of these has sutures? A) Phalanges. B) Skull. C) Clavicle. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skull. 35. Which joint in your body DOES NOT allow circular movements? A) Pivot joint. B) Ball and socket joint. C) Saddle joint. D) Ellipsoid joint. E) Fixed joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Fixed joint. 36. How many bones are in the body? A) 423. B) 356. C) 206. D) 125. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 206. 37. What is the longest and strongest bone in your body called? A) Skull. B) Femur. C) Stirrup. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Femur. 38. We can use an x-ray machine to look at A) Muscles. B) Eyes. C) Bones. D) Clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bones. 39. Bones are a hard, dense type of tissue A) Epithelial tissue. B) Nervous tissue. C) Muscle tissue. D) Connective tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connective tissue. 40. What is the name for the bone in your upper arm? A) Patella. B) Ulna. C) Humerus. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humerus. 41. What part of the skeletal system is used to protect the heart and the lungs? A) Ribs alone. B) Ribs and sternum. C) Vertebral column. D) Cranium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ribs and sternum. 42. What classification of bone are the phalanges? A) Short. B) Sesamoid. C) Irregular. D) Long. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Long. 43. A form of rheumatoid arthritis that primarily causes inflammation between the vertebrae. Inflammation and stiffening of vertebrae is a characteristic. A) Ankylosing Spondylitis. B) Sprain. C) Hemarthrosis. D) Chondroma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ankylosing Spondylitis. 44. What Is The Purpose Of A Ribcage? A) Protect Heart And Lungs. B) Protect The Stomach. C) Provide An Object To Attach To. D) Protect The Spinal Cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protect Heart And Lungs. 45. Hey Eshaan, Kabir, and Avani! Can you tell me what are the three types of joints in the human body? A) Fibrous joints, cartilaginous joints, and synovial joints. B) Hinge joints, ball and socket joints, and pivot joints. C) Muscular joints, ligamentous joints, and tendinous joints. D) Flexible joints, rigid joints, and elastic joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fibrous joints, cartilaginous joints, and synovial joints. 46. The sliding filament theory of muscle contraction says A) Actin and myosin filaments condense, thus causing the filament to shorten which in turn shortens the muscle. B) Myosin rotates and wraps actin around it making the muscle shorter. C) Friction is reduced between thin and thick filaments causing the thick filaments to move inside the thin. D) Actin filaments bind to myosin filaments and slide over the myosin filaments, making the muscle shorter. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Actin filaments bind to myosin filaments and slide over the myosin filaments, making the muscle shorter. 47. This consists of bones, teeth, joints, and structures that connect bones to other bones or muscles A) Digestive system. B) Skeletal system. C) Flat bones. D) Long bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skeletal system. 48. The ..... and scapulas form the shoulder girdle or joint. A) Clavicles. B) Phalanges. C) Humerus. D) Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clavicles. 49. The diaphysis is made of A) Compact bone. B) Spongy bone. C) A large hole. D) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compact bone. 50. The virtually useless last four fused vertebrae in the spinal column. A) Coccyx. B) Pelvis. C) Ilium. D) Ischium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Coccyx. 51. What is the major difference between a closed fracture and an open fracture? A) In a closed fracture, the bone doesn't break the skin; in an open fracture, it does. B) In a closed fracture, the bone breaks all the way through; in an open fracture, it doesn't. C) In a closed fracture, the bone breaks the skin; in an open fracture, it doesn't. D) In a closed fracture, the bone doesn't break all the way through; in an open fracture, it does. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In a closed fracture, the bone doesn't break the skin; in an open fracture, it does. 52. The cranial bones include the parietal, temporal, frontal, ethmoid, sphenoid, and what else? A) Patella. B) Radius. C) Phalanges. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Occipital. 53. This type of bone is solid throughout except for the central canals and lacunae. A) Spongy or Cancellous Bone. B) Compact Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compact Bone. 54. What a baby is born, what is it's skeleton made mostly of? A) Joints. B) Ligaments. C) Tendons. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 55. There are 30 small bones stacked on top of each other on the spine that are called A) Skull. B) Ribs. C) Vertebrae. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vertebrae. 56. Which type of joint give you the most movement? A) Pivot. B) Ball-and-socket. C) Hinge. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ball-and-socket. 57. Components of axial system A) Clavicle, scapula, humerus, ulna, radius, carpal bones,. B) Skull and associated bones, sternum, ribs, vertebral column. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skull and associated bones, sternum, ribs, vertebral column. 58. True or false? The two main divisions of the skeletal system are the appendicular skeleton and axial skeleton. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 59. An example of an wedge A) Axe. B) Doorknob. C) Ramp. D) Screw. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axe. 60. What will happen if you will have one bone in your fingers. A) You wouldn't take anything. B) It would be difficult to control them. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) It would be difficult to control them. ← 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