This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 40 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 40 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The breastbone or bone that the first 10 pairs of ribs connect to on the anterior surface of the body. A) Scapula. B) Clavicle. C) Vertebrae. D) Sternum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sternum. 2. What is the scientific name for your skull (head)? A) Tibia. B) Clavicle. C) Cranium. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cranium. 3. How many vertebrae make up the human spine? A) 33. B) 12. C) 30. D) 24. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 33. 4. Metacarpals form A) The wrist. B) The palm of the hand. C) The ankle. D) Sole of the foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The palm of the hand. 5. Three main layers of a bone? A) Pivot, gliding, hinge. B) Compact, spongy, bone marrow. C) Long bone, flat bone, irregular bone. D) Spongy, yellow, red. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compact, spongy, bone marrow. 6. What are the two main types of bones in the skeletal system? A) Smooth bone and rough bone. B) The two main types of bones in the skeletal system are compact bone and spongy bone. C) Long bone and short bone. D) Hard bone and soft bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The two main types of bones in the skeletal system are compact bone and spongy bone. 7. The platelets help the blood to clot after an injury. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 8. What is an abnormal left or right curvature of the spine? A) Craniosynostosis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Scoliosis. D) Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI). Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scoliosis. 9. What is found in the center of the bone? A) Spongy bone. B) Compact bone. C) Outer membrane. D) Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marrow. 10. How are a seashell and a bone alike? A) They are both made of calcium. B) They both produce bone marrow. C) The both produce red blood cells. D) They both need exercise. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They are both made of calcium. 11. Which label is the patella? A) I. B) D. C) B. D) A. E) C. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) I. 12. Which of the following is the cause of tendinitis? A) Diabetes mellitus. B) Destruction of acetylcholine receptors. C) Obesity. D) Repetitive motion injury. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Repetitive motion injury. 13. Where is your fixed joint located? A) My shoulders. B) Top of my skull. C) My vertebrae. D) My hips. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Top of my skull. 14. Which organ is protected by the skull? A) Heart. B) Brain. C) Stomach. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Brain. 15. Osteocytes are located within tiny little chambers called ..... which are linked by ..... A) Endosteum / Haversian canals. B) Lamella / Haversian canals. C) Ponds / canals. D) Medullary cavities / spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ponds / canals. 16. The heel bone is part of the ..... bones. (page 136) A) Metatarsal. B) Carpal. C) Tarsal. D) Metacarpal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tarsal. 17. Superficial skin layer composed of stratified squamous epithelium. A) Hypodermis. B) Dermis. C) Cute Layer. D) Epidermis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epidermis. 18. It is found inside the spongy bone where the red and white blood cells are produced. A) Spongy Bone. B) Bone Marrow. C) Periosteum. D) Compact Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bone Marrow. 19. These are hard, dense bones that provide strength, structure, and mobility. The thigh bone (femur). A) Long bone. B) Flat bone. C) Short bone. D) Irregular bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long bone. 20. Where is fat stored in your bones? A) Red bone marrow. B) Yellow bone marrow. C) Hemoglobin. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yellow bone marrow. 21. Wrists and ankles are this type of joint A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot or Sliding. D) Immovable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pivot or Sliding. 22. Disease occurs in children, it weakens and softens the bones due to vitamin D deficiency and lack of exposure to sunlight. A) Scoliosis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Rickets. D) Arthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Rickets. 23. Combining form that means joint. A) Myel/o. B) Blachi/o. C) Chondr/o. D) Arthr/o. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Arthr/o. 24. The wrist bones are an example of this joint A) Gliding. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Ball and socket. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gliding. 25. True or False:The lower part of the leg is made up of two bones. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 26. ..... bones have long axes. A) Flat. B) Irregular. C) Long. D) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Long. 27. How many bones do we have when we become adults? A) 100. B) 300. C) 203. D) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 206. 28. What is the long bone in the arm called? A) Humerus. B) Femur. C) Radius. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humerus. 29. Arjun, Grace, and Nora are playing a trivia game. They come across a question:What does the thoracic cage protect? A) Brain. B) Vital organs. C) Skin. D) Eyeballs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vital organs. 30. What is located at number 2? A) Tibia. B) Clavicle. C) Pelvis. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clavicle. 31. Any place where two or more bones come together A) Cardiac muscle. B) Joint. C) Muscle. D) Ligament. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joint. 32. Which of the following is not a long bone? A) Pelvis. B) Phalanges. C) Radius. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pelvis. 33. What is the main function of short bones? A) To provide emotional support. B) To excrete waste. C) To provide structural support and stability. D) To provide better movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To provide structural support and stability. 34. Hydrostatic skeletons occur in..... A) Flatworms, roundworms, earthworms, starfish and slugs. B) Frogs and newts. C) Insects, spiders, scorpions and crabs. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flatworms, roundworms, earthworms, starfish and slugs. 35. Skin protects the body by keeping harmful substances outside the body and keeping important substances inside the body. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 36. Grace, James, and Abigail are playing a game to identify different types of joints in the human body. They come across a tricky question:Which of the following is NOT an example of a hinge joint? A) Knee. B) Shoulder. C) Elbow. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shoulder. 37. These cells are responsible for removing minerals and collagen from bones. A) Osteoplast. B) Hematoma. C) Osteoblast. D) Endorphins. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoplast. 38. Name the type of joint that have little or no movement. A) Fibrous. B) Synovial. C) Hinge. D) Cartilaginous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fibrous. 39. Large cell that are present in almost all cavities of bone and they function to causeresorption? A) Osteocytes. B) Osteoclast. C) Osteoblast. D) None of the Choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteocytes. 40. What are the slightly movable joints? A) *These joints allow limited movement. The joints in your rib cage are partly movable joints. B) *Movable joints don't let the bones move at all, like the joints between your skull bones. C) *Movable joints allow a wide range of motion. Your elbow, shoulder, and knee are movable joints. D) *Bands of strong connective tissue called ligaments hold bones together. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) *These joints allow limited movement. The joints in your rib cage are partly movable joints. 41. A group of cells that have similar functions? A) Tissues. B) Atoms. C) Organs. D) Cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tissues. 42. Where in the skeletal system can this tissue be found? A) Compact bone. B) Protecting the ends of long bones from friction. C) Between intervertebral discs. D) Cancellous bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cancellous bone. 43. Which body is used for drawing or writing A) Leg. B) Nose. C) Hands. D) Stomach. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hands. 44. Which of the following is filled with yellow marrrow? A) Periosteum. B) Spongy bone. C) Medulary cavity. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Medulary cavity. 45. Which gender is more at risk for osteoporisis? A) Male. B) Female. C) Equally vulnerable. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Female. 46. A facture in which the bone splinters, but the break is incomplete A) Greenstick fx. B) Closed reduction. C) Compound fx. D) Open reduction. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greenstick fx. 47. What is the correct order of organization from smallest to largest in living things? A) Organism, organ system, organ, tissue, cell. B) Tissues, cells, organ systems, organs, organism. C) Cell, cell system, organ, organ system, organism. D) Cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cell, tissue, organ, organ system, organism. 48. What girdle is much sturdier and provides far less mobility than the other? A) Spinal. B) Pelvic. C) Patella. D) Pectoral. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pelvic. 49. When kicking a football, ..... joint is one of the main movements required. A) Circumduction at the hip. B) Extension at the elbow. C) Extension at the Knee. D) Abduction at the hip. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Extension at the Knee. 50. Area where two or more bones join together A) Joint. B) Arthrosis. C) Bursa. D) Socket. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joint. 51. A tough membrane that surrounds the bone A) Skeleton. B) Periosteum. C) Bone marrow. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periosteum. 52. Protects the heart and lungs A) Bony Pelvis. B) Skull. C) Ribs. D) Vertebral Column. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ribs. 53. What is the softer connective tissue that fills the interior of the ends of most long bones called? A) Yellow marrow. B) Cartilage. C) Red marrow. D) Adipose tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red marrow. 54. The human body consists of over: A) 360 muscles. B) 106 muscles. C) 206 muscles. D) 600 muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 600 muscles. 55. All bones contain..... bone tissue A) Compact. B) Spongy. C) Both answers are correct. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both answers are correct. 56. Which of the following bone protects the brain? A) Femur. B) Ribs. C) Pelvic Bone. D) Skull. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skull. 57. The shaft of a long bone which is made of compact bone containing a central cavity A) Diaphysis. B) Epiphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Diaphysis. 58. Phalanges are an example of A) Flat bone. B) Long bone. C) Irregular bone. D) Short bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long bone. 59. What food are good for developing strong, healthy bones? A) Dairy. B) Veggies. C) Protein. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dairy. 60. What mineral is essential for bone strength? A) B12. B) Magnesium. C) Calcium. D) Iron. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calcium. ← 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