This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 45 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 45 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. THE LAST BONE OF THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN A) ATLAS. B) SACRAL BONE. C) COCCYX. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) COCCYX. 2. If you weighed 100 pounds how much of that would be from your skeleton? A) 50 pounds or 50%. B) 30 pounds or 30%. C) 20 pounds or 20%. D) 5 pounds or 5%. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 20 pounds or 20%. 3. Below are examples of spongy bone except: A) Skull. B) Ribs. C) Arms. D) Sternum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Arms. 4. What is the purpose of yellow bone marrow? A) To store energy and act as shock absorbers. B) To make blood. C) To make bones. D) To make muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To store energy and act as shock absorbers. 5. ..... are tiny canals that connect lacunae together in order to form a transport system. A) Canaliculi. B) Lamellae. C) Calcium tunnels. D) Lacunae. E) Osteon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Canaliculi. 6. ..... is the only bone that can move in the skull. A) Jawbone. B) Lower jaw bone. C) Upper jaw bone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lower jaw bone. 7. The femur is the smallest bone in the body. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 8. What keeps bones from breaking? A) Bone cells. B) Compact bone. C) Periosteum. D) Joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compact bone. 9. What is an example of a condyloid joint? A) Wrist. B) Clavicle and scapula. C) Thumb. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrist. 10. Which is the upper bone in arm? A) Humerus. B) Tibia. C) Femur. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Humerus. 11. A tough band of fibrous, slightly elastic connective tissue that attaches one bone to another. A) Ligaments. B) Tendons. C) Joints. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ligaments. 12. How many divisions are in the body? A) 4. B) 2. C) 1. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2. 13. Gridles connect the ..... A) Vertebral column to upper and lower limbs. B) Vertebral column and skull. C) Knees. D) Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vertebral column to upper and lower limbs. 14. True or false, the vertebrae starts at the base of the skull and continues to the pelvis. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Which types of joints are immovable or only slightly moveable? A) Synovial and cartilaginous. B) Synovial and fibrous. C) Cartilaginous and fibrous. D) Fibrous and irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilaginous and fibrous. 16. The muscular systems main function include all of these except A) Allows movement in the body. B) Maintain posture. C) Stabilize joints. D) Converts food into nutrients. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Converts food into nutrients. 17. How many bones are present in human body? A) 206. B) 200. C) 126. D) 306. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 206. 18. What fluid lubricates, acts as a shock absorber and nourishes joints? A) Synovial. B) Extracellular. C) Mucous. D) Interstitial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synovial. 19. What is the name for your bones in your spinal cord? A) Joints. B) Vertebrae. C) Tailbone. D) Spine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vertebrae. 20. Which kind of muscles make up the heart? A) Cardiac muscles. B) Soft muscles. C) Skeletal muscles. D) Smooth muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cardiac muscles. 21. This joint allows movement in all directions and the hip is an example A) Pivot. B) Condyloid. C) Ball and socket. D) Saddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ball and socket. 22. Which bone is found in the axial skeleton? A) Tibia. B) Ulna. C) Humerus. D) Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ribs. 23. ..... is the chemical that give skin its color. A) Melanin. B) Phosphorous. C) Urea. D) Sodium chloride. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melanin. 24. During a biology class, Mason, Noah, and Benjamin were discussing the human skull. They came up with a few statements, but one of them is FALSE. Can you identify the incorrect statement? A) The skull provides a hole for the spinal cord to connect to the brain. B) The skull is the largest contiguous bone structure in your body. C) Two of the bones of the skull are paired. D) The skull separates the nasal cavity from the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The skull is the largest contiguous bone structure in your body. 25. What is an example of an immovable joint? A) Fingers. B) Skull. C) Ankle. D) Hip. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skull. 26. The adult human body has ..... bones. A) 80. B) 300. C) 126. D) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 206. 27. The stomach is a ..... A) Skeletal muscle. B) Cardiac muscle. C) Smooth muscle. D) External muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smooth muscle. 28. What ball and socket joint do you use when you throw a ball? A) Hips. B) Shoulders. C) Wrist. D) Elbow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Shoulders. 29. Where is the tibia located? A) Hand. B) Foot. C) Leg. D) Core. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leg. 30. With a contusion, ..... ruptures at the injured site causing the tissue to turn black and blue. A) Muscle. B) Bone. C) Ligaments. D) Blood vessels. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blood vessels. 31. Which of the following bones are all located in the skull? A) Parietal, clavicle, zygomatic. B) Frontal, occipital, mandible. C) Maxillary, carpal, frontal. D) Parietal, occipital, ilium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Frontal, occipital, mandible. 32. Which type of bone tissue is a hard outer covering of most bones? A) Periosteum. B) Spongy bone. C) Bone marrow. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Periosteum. 33. ..... bones are along the axis of the body which protect the internal organs A) Axial. B) Appendicular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appendicular. 34. Spongy bone is located in the ..... A) Periosteum. B) Diaphysis. C) Epiphyseal Plate. D) Epiphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Epiphysis. 35. Muscle that can be consciously controlled A) Involuntary. B) Cardiac. C) Voluntary. D) Smooth. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Voluntary. 36. The epiphyseal plate remains between the two ossification centers and remains active until the end of puberty. A) Step 3 of Endochondral Ossification. B) Step 4 of Endochondral Ossification. C) Step 1 of Endochondral Ossification. D) Step 5 of Endochondral Ossification. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Step 5 of Endochondral Ossification. 37. Muscles are made up of A) Milk. B) Long threads. C) Bones. D) Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Long threads. 38. What's the "tail" of the spine called? A) Church. B) Coccyx. C) Coca Cola. D) Costicks. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Coccyx. 39. Which bone cell is responsible for recycling bone tissue? A) Osteoblasts. B) Osteocytes. C) Osteoclasts. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoclasts. 40. ..... are made in the marrow. A) Ligaments. B) Muscles. C) Blood cells. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood cells. 41. Red blood cells are created in compact bone tissue. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 42. The joint found between the bones of the vertebral column A) Ball and shoulder joint. B) Gliding joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gliding joint. 43. Name the above body part. A) Skull. B) Rib cage. C) Leg. D) Backbone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Backbone. 44. This is large and heavy in men to support their heavy weight, and shallow but wider for women to provide enough space for child-bearing. A) Ribs. B) Skull. C) Backbone. D) Pelvis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pelvis. 45. B1 Bones can grow because they are made of cells. A) Marrow. B) Cells. C) Blood vessels. D) Bones. E) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cells. 46. Which bone does not attach to any other bones of the skeleton? A) Ulna. B) Frontal. C) Femur. D) Hyoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hyoid. 47. Thick bands of tissue that attach muscles to bones A) Muscles. B) Tendons. C) Ligament. D) Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tendons. 48. Consists of the skull and vertebrae A) Sesamoid. B) Axial skeleton. C) Epiphysis. D) Ossification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axial skeleton. 49. This is the hardest and most dense part of the bone: A) Compact bone. B) Spongy bone. C) Blood vessel. D) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Compact bone. 50. Red bone marrow, composition A) Primarily made up of fatcells and some stem cells. B) Produces red blood cells, whiteblood cells, and platelets. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Produces red blood cells, whiteblood cells, and platelets. 51. What is the Medical Abbreviation for the definition Degenerative joint disease? A) DJD. B) Ra. C) OA. D) Fx. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) DJD. 52. Which of the following is an example of irregular bones? A) Patella. B) Femur. C) Clavicle. D) Vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vertebrae. 53. The cranium/skull starts out as how many bones? A) 5. B) 3. C) 1. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 3. 54. This skeletal system organ is necessary for movement of the skeleton A) Cartilage. B) Joints. C) Tendons. D) Ligaments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joints. 55. The largest organ of lymphatic system that stores lymphocytes A) Thymus. B) Tonsils. C) Spleen. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spleen. 56. Which of the following bones is part of the upper limb? A) Tibia. B) Humerus. C) Femur. D) Fibula. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Humerus. 57. How many bones make up your skeleton? A) 400. B) 65. C) 300. D) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 206. 58. This is a disease caused by a bacteria sometimes found in food. Can cause paralysis A) Muscular dystrophy. B) Myasthenia gravis. C) Botulism. D) Bursitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Botulism. 59. Which term best describes compact bone? A) Liquid. B) Spongy. C) Flexible. D) Rigid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rigid. 60. The soft tissue that fills the internal spaces in bone and produces red blood cells A) Marrow. B) Smoothe. C) Bone. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Marrow. ← 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