This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 60 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 60 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Most bones form from ..... A) Red marrow. B) Hyaline cartilage. C) Joints. D) Diaphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hyaline cartilage. 2. What is the correct term for:end- A) Blood. B) Within. C) Bone. D) Surrounding. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Within. 3. What type of joint is found in the thumb? A) Ball and Socket. B) Ellipsoidal. C) Hinge. D) Saddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Saddle. 4. True or False:Your nose and ears is made of compact bone A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 5. What does the prefix 'Erythro-' mean? A) Red. B) Green. C) Yellow. D) Blue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red. 6. How are red and white blood cells formed? A) By combining hydrogen and oxygen atoms. B) In bone marrow tissue, which is found in the center of your bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In bone marrow tissue, which is found in the center of your bones. 7. Bones also give your body ..... A) Support. B) Feelings. C) Water. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Support. 8. The table summarizes some of the structures and functions of the human body. What term should replace X in the table? A) Skin. B) Arteries. C) Muscles. D) Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bones. 9. Which of the following is NOT a synovial joint? A) Fibrous. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Ball and socket. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fibrous. 10. ..... Short Bones A) Bones of the skull. B) Bones of the shoulder and hip. C) Bones such as the humerous, femur, radius, ulna and fibula. D) Bones phalanges and carpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bones phalanges and carpals. 11. Moving the limb or hand laterally away from the body, or spreading the fingers or toes. A) Sarcopenia. B) Abduction. C) Axial skeleton. D) Lumbosacral. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abduction. 12. Where would you find the metatarsals and phalanges? A) In the neck. B) In the leg. C) In the feet. D) In the hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) In the feet. 13. Each Shoulder girdle consists of two bones, a Clavicle and a ..... A) Tibia. B) Scapula. C) Sternum. D) Mandible. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Scapula. 14. Backbone protect the ..... A) Brain. B) Spine. C) Lugs. D) Heart. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spine. 15. What bones protect the heart and lungs? A) Humerus. B) Rib cage. C) Femur. D) Spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Rib cage. 16. What type of muscle is most important to moving food through thedigestive system? A) Skeletal. B) Smooth. C) Cardiac. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Smooth. 17. This disease causes a curve in the spine. A) Osteoporosis. B) Arthritis. C) Scoliosis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scoliosis. 18. What bone is highlighted here A) Femur. B) Humerus. C) Radius. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Radius. 19. How does compact bone tissue differ from spongy bone tissue? A) Spongy is more organized than compact. B) Compact has nerves & blood vessels, spongy does not. C) Compact is used for support & stability, spongy is used for storage. D) Spongy has osteons, compact has trabeculae. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compact is used for support & stability, spongy is used for storage. 20. Which part of your skeleton protects the brain? A) Skull. B) Ribs. C) Head. D) Backbone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skull. 21. Your back is full of ..... A) Cartilage. B) Vertebra. C) Calcium. D) Ball and socket. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vertebra. 22. You wanna hear something funny? Sure you do. My friend, Shoulder, told me that I sound as if I'm the funniest bone in the human body. I don't know how that can be. Well, anyway, if I'm the funniest bone in the human body, why don't I know my own name? Do you know who I am? A) Radius. B) Ulna. C) Humerus. D) Femus. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humerus. 23. An important constituent of the diet to ensure healthy bone growth A) Iron. B) Magnesium. C) Calcium. D) Vitamin B. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calcium. 24. The large intestine measures about ..... ? A) 1 foot. B) 5 feet. C) 10 feet. D) 100 feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5 feet. 25. The ..... bone is the lower jaw bone and is the strongest bone in the face. A) The jaws. B) Mandible. C) Cranium. D) Ethmoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mandible. 26. The bones in the fingers or digits are called? A) Scapula. B) Metacarpus. C) Carpus. D) Phalanges. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phalanges. 27. A horse is an example of an ..... A) Endoskeleton. B) Exoskeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Endoskeleton. 28. Where are metacarpals are found? A) Long part of the foot. B) Palm of the hand. C) Proximal to the carpals. D) In the forearm. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Palm of the hand. 29. The maintenance of mineral homeostasis is an important function of the skeleton A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. Which term describes the condition commonly known as a bunion? A) Talipes. B) Hallux valgus. C) Spina bifida. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hallux valgus. 31. Name the systems that help you move A) Muscular-skeletal-nervous system. B) Muscular-skeletal system. C) Skeletal system. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Muscular-skeletal-nervous system. 32. There are ..... lumbar vertebrae. A) 12. B) 5. C) 7. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 5. 33. Doctors call your skull the A) Brain. B) Cranium. C) Face. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cranium. 34. Where can you find the gliding joint? A) Wrist and ankle. B) Neck. C) Elbow and knee. D) Hip and shoulders. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wrist and ankle. 35. The suffix clast means A) To build, genesis. B) To break down. C) Cartilage. D) Through. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To break down. 36. The MAIN function of short bones is to ..... A) Protect vital organs. B) Absorb shock. C) Act as a lever. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Absorb shock. 37. Simple Greenstick A) A. B) E. C) B. D) C. E) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. 38. What is the tailbone's scientific name? A) Sacred. B) Pelvis. C) Coccyx. D) Sternum. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Coccyx. 39. Why is it important to eat foods with a lot of calcium? A) Calcium supports heart health. B) Calcium makes you smarter. C) Calcium helps you sleep. D) Calcium strengthens your bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calcium strengthens your bones. 40. These occur over time and make up half the sport injuries that occur in teens. A) Dislocations. B) Sprains. C) Fractures. D) Overuse injuries. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Overuse injuries. 41. Spongy Tissue in the bone is Rigid A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 42. Your neck is an example of a ..... joint. A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Saddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pivot. 43. Joints that provide free movements to all directions are called ..... A) Pivot joints. B) Hinge joints. C) Saddle joints. D) Ball and socket joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ball and socket joints. 44. What is the name of a vitamin that helps build strong and healthy bones? A) Lemon Juice. B) Vitamin D (calcium). C) Vitamin Pasky. D) Blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vitamin D (calcium). 45. Protects vital organs A) Axial Skeleton. B) Appendicular Skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axial Skeleton. 46. ..... is the longest bone in the human body. A) Skull. B) Humerus. C) Clavicle. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Femur. 47. What type of joint are your shoulders and hips? A) Ball and socket joints. B) Hinge joints. C) Gliding joints. D) Pivot joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball and socket joints. 48. The noise that bones can make when they rub against each other or on cartilage. A) Exostosis. B) Callus. C) Crepitation. D) Friction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crepitation. 49. This tunnel allows the osteocytes to 'talk' to each other within an osteon A) Central canal. B) Lamellae. C) Murcielago. D) Canals. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Canals. 50. The epiphyseal plate grows thicker due to this type of cell undergoing mitosis and pushing older cells out. A) Erythrocyte. B) Thrombocyte. C) Osteocyte. D) Chondrocyte. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chondrocyte. 51. What are the two types of osseous tissue? A) Cancellous and compact bone. B) Osteoblasts and cartilage. C) Cartilage and joints. D) Osteoclast and articulations. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cancellous and compact bone. 52. Which one is not an injury or disease of the skeletal system? A) Stroke. B) Sprain. C) Fracture. D) Osteoporosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stroke. 53. The main function of the joints and ligaments is? A) Movement. B) Regulation the heartbeats. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movement. 54. Bones that develop from layers of hyaline cartilage are called ..... A) Intramembranous bone. B) Endochondral bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Endochondral bone. 55. What percentage of bone composition is minerals (mostly calcium phosphate and calcium carbonate)? A) 26. B) 20. C) 50. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 26. 56. The parietal bone of the skull is classified as what type of bone? A) Short bone. B) Irregular bone. C) Flat bone tagsSAP2. D) Long bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flat bone tagsSAP2. 57. Which group of bones protects the spinal cord? A) Cartilage. B) Backbone. C) Rib cage. D) Skull. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Backbone. 58. This type of bone formation involves a fetal hyaline cartilage skeleton A) Cartilage genesis. B) Endochondral ossification. C) Intramembranous ossification. D) Fracture repair. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Endochondral ossification. 59. One of the functions of bone is to store minerals and fat. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 60. Which bone is NOT associated with the pelvic girdle? A) Sacred. B) Pubis. C) Of them. D) Ischium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sacred. ← 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