This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System β Quiz 56 π Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 56 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The main difference in the female skeleton and the male skeleton is found in the A) Leg bones. B) Skull. C) Pelvis bone. D) Rib cage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pelvis bone. 2. The place where 2 bones meet is called as ..... A) Skull. B) Joints. C) Ligaments. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joints. 3. How many bones make up the elbow joint ..... A) 2. B) 1. C) 4. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 3. 4. Where are white blood cells produced A) Heart. B) Bone marrow. C) A larger cell. D) Near bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bone marrow. 5. Bones that small and cube shaped (wrist bones) are called: A) Flat Bones. B) Irregular Bones. C) Short Bones. D) Long Bones. E) Sesamoid Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Short Bones. 6. Stretching or tearing of the ligaments from rolling your ankle: A) Sprain. B) Bunion. C) Strain. D) Hammertoe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sprain. 7. In this stage, woven bone is laid down beneath the periosteum, allowing newly formed blood vessels to proliferate and allowing further migration of mesenchymal stem cells. A) Hematoma Formation. B) Bony Callus Formation. C) Remodeling. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bony Callus Formation. 8. What is located at number 1? A) Mandible. B) Radius. C) Skull. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skull. 9. They don't allow any movement this is ..... joints A) Freely movable. B) Limited movable. C) Widely movable. D) Immovable. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Immovable. 10. Rachel injured her ankle while ice-skating. Her X-ray shows no signs of bone abnormality but her doctor feels she has damaged ligaments. Rachel's diagnosis is a ..... A) Open/compound. B) Comminuted. C) Sprain. D) Kyphosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sprain. 11. Which of the following is a functional classification of joints? A) Synovial. B) Cartilaginous. C) Fibrous. D) Assembly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assembly. 12. What is resorption? A) When the osteoclasts break the bone material down. B) When the osteoblasts remake the bone cells. C) When the calcium is added to your bones. D) When your blood cells are absorbed back into the capillaries. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) When the osteoclasts break the bone material down. 13. Realignment of broken bones A) Revive. B) Reduction. C) Renew. D) Replacement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Reduction. 14. Match the example to the job:You can play basketball, hockey, do yoga, fitness, and even act across the stage because of your bones. A) Gives you shape and support. B) Protects your inner organs. C) Forms blood cells. D) Stores minerals. E) Helps you move (with muscles). Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Helps you move (with muscles). 15. Remodeling is the term for removal and addition of bone. Which cells remove bone tissue? A) Osteocyte. B) Osteoblast. C) Osteoclast. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoclast. 16. Organize the body from most complex to simplest. A) Cells, tissues, organs, organism. B) Cells, organ, organ system, tissue, organism. C) Cells, tissues, organs, organ system, organism. D) Organism, organ system, organs, tissues, cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organism, organ system, organs, tissues, cells. 17. What are tissues that can contract to produce movement called? A) Tendons. B) Ligaments. C) Cartilage. D) Muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Muscles. 18. Total number of bones in the upper limbs. A) 90. B) 60. C) 30. D) 120. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 60. 19. The type of ossification that produces most of your bones-but not flat bones. A) Deterministic. B) Endochondral. C) Appositional. D) Intramembranous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Endochondral. 20. A kid fell on their bike and scraped their right elbow and right knee. The scrapes on the elbow and knee are: ..... A) Bilateral. B) Contralateral. C) Unilateral. D) Ipsilateral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ipsilateral. 21. Which of the following is NOT a bone of the pelvic girdle? A) Scapula. B) Ischium. C) Ilium. D) Pubis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Scapula. 22. The unossified portions of an infants skull are referred to as: A) Joints. B) Primary ossification centers. C) Fontanels. D) Sutures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fontanels. 23. There are ..... bones in your body A) 105. B) 206. C) 205. D) 306. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 24. Why might your heart rate be faster? A) You are sleeping. B) You just ran a mile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You just ran a mile. 25. Joints are?..... A) Muscle. B) Places where two bones meet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Places where two bones meet. 26. The human body has..... bones when mature. A) 306. B) 206. C) 95. D) 26. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 27. What is the word for the definition Sacrum? A) Under/o. B) -one. C) Skulls. D) Sacred. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sacred. 28. 10% of interstitial fluid doesn't return back to capillaries and is collected by A) Circulatory system. B) Lymphatic system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lymphatic system. 29. Bones, ligaments, and cartilage form the ..... system. A) Respiratory. B) Nervous. C) Skeletal. D) Circulatory. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal. 30. How many bones are there in the infant body? A) 270. B) 208. C) 206. D) 126. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 270. 31. What are the freely 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: C) *Movable joints allow a wide range of motion. Your elbow, shoulder, and knee are movable joints. 32. Which type of girdle is shown in above image? A) Shoulder girdle. B) Hip girdle. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Shoulder girdle. 33. Ligaments attach ..... A) Bone to muscle. B) Bone to bone. C) Bone to tendons. D) Muscle to muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bone to bone. 34. Muscle myofibrils A) Hold muscle cells together. B) Are found in the sarcolemma. C) Contain myosin and actin myofilaments. D) Extend from the sarcolemma to the T-tubule. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Contain myosin and actin myofilaments. 35. Joints that are immovable are called: A) Assembly. B) Syntendionious. C) Diarthrotic. D) Amphiarthrotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Assembly. 36. What does the muscle tissue do? A) Carries messages. B) Allows movement. C) Covers surfaces inside and out. D) Connects and supports. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allows movement. 37. What is the effect of calcitonin? A) To activate vitamin D. B) To increase osteoblast activity. C) To increase calcium reabsorption. D) To increase osteoclast activity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To increase osteoblast activity. 38. Foot movement in which the bottom of the foot is turned laterally, away from the midline. A) Osteoblast. B) Tendinitis. C) Eversion. D) Axial skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Eversion. 39. This bone is in the lower leg and is known as the shin A) Fibula. B) Femur. C) Tibia. D) Patella. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tibia. 40. Where is the Ball and socket joint found? A) The ball and socket joint is found in the hips and shoulders. B) The ball and socket joint is found in the wrists and ankles. C) The ball and socket joint is found in the spine and neck. D) The ball and socket joint is found in the elbows and knees. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The ball and socket joint is found in the hips and shoulders. 41. Most abundant cartilage. Found in the coastal cartilage and of the nose A) Elastic Cartilage. B) Hyaline Cartilage. C) Fibrocartilage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyaline Cartilage. 42. Framework, protection, produce blood cells and storage A) Muscular. B) Nervous. C) Skeletal. D) Cardiovascular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Skeletal. 43. .... signals the brain as to what is going on in the outside world by using your fives senses. A) Motor nerves. B) Sensory nerves. C) Spinal cord. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sensory nerves. 44. The muscles whose movement can be controlled are called A) Voluntary muscles. B) Involuntary muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Voluntary muscles. 45. The shoulder bone is called the A) Cranium. B) Scapula. C) Mandible. D) Patella. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scapula. 46. What bone is in between your ribs? A) Ribs. B) Ulna. C) Patella. D) Sternum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sternum. 47. What are the two bones in the lower arm called? A) Carpals/tarsals. B) Pipe/clamp. C) Frank/Joe. D) Radius/ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Radius/ulna. 48. What does the skull carry? A) Brain. B) Stirrup. C) Heart. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brain. 49. What is another name for breastbone A) Floating ribs. B) Vertebrate. C) Sternum. D) Rib cage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sternum. 50. What makes bones so straong A) Silica. B) Cartilage. C) Blood and marrow. D) Calcium and phosphorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calcium and phosphorous. 51. Which part of the skeletal system produces most of the body's blood cells? A) Yellow marrow. B) Compact bone. C) Red marrow. D) Spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red marrow. 52. Thin inner layer of bone covering;lines the medullary cavity A) Endosteum. B) Irregular bone. C) Flat bone. D) Short bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Endosteum. 53. How do you spell the process where bones become weak and break easily? A) Osteoporosis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Osteoporosis. D) Osteoporosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis. 54. All the bones together are called ..... A) Circulatory system. B) Skeletal system. C) Skeletal system. D) Respiratory system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skeletal system. 55. When you stand up nice and tall your bones prevent you from falling over. Which function of the skeletal system is this? A) Bones. B) Support. C) Mobility. D) Protection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Support. 56. Which type of bone is inside the bone and porous? A) Compact bone. B) Spongy bone. C) Osteocyte. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spongy bone. 57. Which is NOT an example of a long bone? A) Patella. B) Tibia. C) Humerus. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Patella. 58. ..... are stronger than bones. A) Cartilage. B) Teeth. C) Ligaments. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Teeth. 59. This is the opening in the occipital bone which allows the spinal cord to attach to the brain. A) Fontanelles. B) Hyoid. C) The Great Hole. D) Sutures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The Great Hole. 60. What is the term for the shaft of a long bone? ΒΏCuΓ‘l es el tΓ©rmino para el eje de un hueso largo? A) Bone marrow. B) Diaphysis. C) Epiphysis. D) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diaphysis. β PreviousNext βRelated 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 π Back to Homepage π Download PDF Books π Premium PDF Books