This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 47 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 47 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is breathed out from our mouth and nose? A) Oxygen. B) Carbon dioxide. C) Helium. D) Nitrogen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carbon dioxide. 2. What is a characteristic feature of long bones? A) They are wider than they are long. B) They are longer than they are wide. C) They facilitate digestion. D) They have a "head" at the middle of the shaft. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They are longer than they are wide. 3. Which of these is a short bone? A) Metacarpal. B) Frontal. C) Carpal. D) Scapula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carpal. 4. What is the correct term for:hemat/o A) Blood. B) Surrounding. C) Tissue. D) Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blood. 5. Which term means the surgical fusion of two bones to stiffen a joint? A) Ankylosing spondylitis. B) Arthrodesis. C) Arthrolysis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arthrodesis. 6. Dense connective tissue that connects bone to bone A) Tendon. B) Muscle. C) Nerve. D) Ligament. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ligament. 7. Your skull shields your brain, your ribs protect your heart and lungs, and your backbone protects your spine. 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: C) Protects and supports organs. 8. ..... is the coloring in skin and is found in the epidermis. A) Oil. B) Pores. C) Perspiration. D) Melanin. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Melanin. 9. Joint that only allow bending and straightening movements such as in the elbow, knees, upper and lower arm A) Ball-and-socket. B) Gliding. C) Hinge. D) Pivot. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hinge. 10. Bones store calcium and release some into the bloodstream when it's needed by other parts of the body. 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: E) Stores and releases minerals. 11. Bones on the thighs A) Humerus. B) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Femur. 12. What happens when bones break? A) They are broken forever. B) They repair themselves. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They repair themselves. 13. Which type of bone is the scapula, ribs and sternum? A) Irregular Bone. B) Long Bone. C) Short Bone. D) Flat Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flat Bone. 14. ..... are mostly made of Spongy Bone Tissue A) Bone Marrow. B) Short Bones. C) Cartilage. D) Long Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short Bones. 15. Which type of bones are longer than they are wide? A) Long Bones. B) Irregular Bones. C) Flat Bones. D) Short Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long Bones. 16. Radius, phalanges, ulna A) Short. B) Flat. C) Spongey. D) Long. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Long. 17. Which skeletal system do the bones of the hand belong? A) Appendicular. B) Axial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appendicular. 18. The bone posterior and interior to the Parietal bone of the skull is called the ..... bone. A) Parietal. B) Foramen. C) Occipital. D) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occipital. 19. Softening of bone A) Osteomalacia. B) Tendotomy. C) Chondromalacia. D) Encephalitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteomalacia. 20. How do you know the meaning of the word femur? A) An antonym is given in the text. B) An example is given in the text, but I had to make an inference. C) The definition and an example is given in the text. D) I just know because I'm smart like that. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The definition and an example is given in the text. 21. What is the place where two bones meet? A) Bone. B) Spot. C) Joint. D) Hinge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Joint. 22. Toes and fingers are called ..... A) Phalanges. B) Bones. C) Tendons. D) Carpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phalanges. 23. The backbone is made up of how many small bones A) 201. B) 22. C) 33. D) 66. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 33. 24. What type of tissue are bones considered to be? A) Nerve. B) Epithelial. C) Muscle. D) Connective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Connective. 25. Babies have more cartilage than adults. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 26. What are the pits called that contain cells such as osteocytes and chrondrocytes? A) Lacunae. B) Lamellae. C) Canals. D) Osteons. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lacunae. 27. Combining form that means arm. A) Arthr/o. B) Myel/o. C) Chondr/o. D) Blachi/o. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blachi/o. 28. Which of these best describes the role the skeletal system plays in the human body? A) Converting food into energy. B) Allows the body to move. C) Providing structural support. D) Protect the outside of the body. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Providing structural support. 29. Where are the sutures located? A) In the cranium. B) In the elbow. C) In the ankle. D) In the patella. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) In the cranium. 30. It is also called the collar bone. A) Scapula. B) Clavicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clavicle. 31. Which is NOT a true statement for Endoskeleton. A) An endoskeleton grows with you as you grow. B) An endoskeleton is on the inside of an animal. C) An endoskeleton can support extra weight. D) An endoskeleton has to molt in order to grow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) An endoskeleton has to molt in order to grow. 32. In an adult, trabeculae and red bone marrow are found in A) Compact bone. B) Spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spongy bone. 33. Cartilage does not have blood supply. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 34. Dense, extremely hard bone is known as ..... A) Regular Bone. B) Spongy Bone. C) Compact Bone. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compact Bone. 35. How many different types of bones are there? A) 4. B) 3. C) 1. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 4. 36. Another name for the prime mover is A) Agonist. B) Synergist. C) Fixator. D) Antagonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Agonist. 37. A procedure used to repair a bone in the spine that has a break caused by cancer, osteoporosis, or trauma. A) Rotation. B) Autoimmune diseases/disorders. C) Vertebroplasty. D) Lumbar. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vertebroplasty. 38. Osteoporosis is: A) Thinning and weakening of bones. B) Wear and tear on a joint. C) A severe sprain in a joint. D) Soreness surrounding a joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Thinning and weakening of bones. 39. Where can you find cartilage? A) Nails, teeth and eyeballs. B) Ears, tip of the nose and lining the surface of the joints. C) Lips, ears and the tip of your nose. D) Head, shoulders, knees and toes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ears, tip of the nose and lining the surface of the joints. 40. What hold bones together called? A) Cartilage. B) Ligaments. C) Tissue. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ligaments. 41. What type of ribs attach directly to the sternum? A) True. B) False. C) Floating. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 42. Composed of bones that protect some delicate organs of the body A) Skeletal system. B) Axial skeleton. C) Appendicular skeleton. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axial skeleton. 43. What type of cells make bone tissue? A) Chondroblasts. B) Osteoclasts. C) Osteoblasts. D) Chondrocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoblasts. 44. What color are the frontal sinuses? b A) A RED. B) B BLUE. C) C GREEN. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B BLUE. 45. Blood is a type of ..... A) Connective Tissue. B) Nervous Tissue. C) Muscle Tissue. D) Epithelial Tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Connective Tissue. 46. The human skeletal system is made up of ..... A) Bones. B) Lungs. C) Heart. D) Muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bones. 47. Where do you find compact bone in a long bone? A) Around the outside, especially along the diaphysis. B) In the interior of the bone. C) In the Epiphyses. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Around the outside, especially along the diaphysis. 48. What type of connective tissue joins bones to bones at the joints? A) Nerve. B) Epithelial. C) Ligament. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ligament. 49. What special joint is located in your thumb? A) Horse. B) Cattle. C) Saddle. D) Gallop. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Saddle. 50. The production of blood cells. A) Chondromalacia. B) Abduction. C) Hematopoiesis. D) Osteomalacia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hematopoiesis. 51. Gout can be described as- A) A type of arthritis that is considered an autoimmune condition that causes inflammation within the joints. B) Inflammation of a bone caused by an infection. C) A type of arthritis that occurs when cartilage within a joint begins to break down and the underlying bone begins to change. D) A type of arthritis in which uric acid builds up in the blood, causing joint swelling and pain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A type of arthritis in which uric acid builds up in the blood, causing joint swelling and pain. 52. A metabolic bone disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D is referred to as: A) Rheumatoid arthritis. B) Rheumatic fever. C) Osteomyelitis. D) Osteomalacia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Osteomalacia. 53. How many key bones are found in the spine? A) 8. B) 7. C) 2. D) 5. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 5. 54. When a bone is broken, a large mass of blood forms that is called a(n) A) Osteocyte. B) Hematoma. C) Osteoclast. D) Callus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hematoma. 55. Joining point of epiphysis and diaphysis A) Simple fraction. B) Metaphysis. C) Periosteum. D) Ossification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Metaphysis. 56. A break in the distal portion of the radius A) Transverse. B) Spiral. C) Catch up. D) Pott's. E) Compression. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Catch up. 57. There are how many muscle types? A) 3. B) 4. C) 2. D) 1. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 58. TRUE OR FALSE:People are born with over 300 bones in their body. A) True; but the person will have 400 bones when they are done growing. B) False; people are born with only 206 bones in their body. C) True; but the person will have 206 when they are done growing. D) False; people are born with only cartilage instead of bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) True; but the person will have 206 when they are done growing. 59. What is the common name for the stapes? A) Stirrup. B) Scaphoid. C) Anvil. D) Hammer. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stirrup. 60. The skin is made up of ..... main layers? How many main layers are there? A) 1. B) 4. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. ← 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