This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 61 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 61 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Are the bones in your cranium considered a fixed joint or a moveable joint? A) Moveable. B) Fixed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fixed. 2. What are these bones in the neck called? (c1 and c2) A) Atlas and c1. B) Axis and c2. C) Atlas and axis. D) C1 and c2. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Atlas and axis. 3. The epidermis is composed of A) Dead cells. B) Live cells. C) Dead and live cells. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dead and live cells. 4. Which bone forms the "bridge" of the nose A) Ethmoid. B) Nasal. C) Palatine. D) Lacrimal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nasal. 5. A compound fracture can be described as when: A) The broken bone is exposed to the outside. B) The bone is crushed. C) The broken bone ends are forced into each other. D) The bone is broken into many fragments. E) Adjacent bones fracture simultaneously. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The broken bone is exposed to the outside. 6. Which one is a joint found in the body. A) Hinge Joint. B) Sock Joint. C) Stucket Joint. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinge Joint. 7. This is a type of muscle I can move. A) Involuntary. B) Voluntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Voluntary. 8. Bone tissue composed of small needle-like pieces of bone with open spaces: A) Spongy bone. B) Lacunae. C) Canaliculi. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spongy bone. 9. Which blood type is known as the universal donor? (can be used by all) A) AB +. B) AB-. C) O+. D) O-. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) O-. 10. ..... bone is hard and dense, but not solid. A) Skull. B) Marrow. C) Spongy. D) Compact. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compact. 11. True or False-smooth muscle is voluntary. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 12. These 26 small bones make up your backbone A) Skull plate. B) Vertebrae. C) Cartilage. D) Ligaments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vertebrae. 13. Makes bones rigid and hard A) Blood vessels. B) Compact bone. C) Muscles. D) Spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compact bone. 14. What is the main structural unit of compact bone? A) Lamella. B) Lacuna. C) Osteon. D) Trabecula. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteon. 15. The bones of the spinal column are called: A) Tendons. B) Ribs. C) Vertebrae. D) Muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Vertebrae. 16. What is the name for bone "2" above? A) Frontal. B) Occipital. C) Parietal. D) Temporal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Temporal. 17. Your tibia and fibula are located in your A) Wrist. B) Back. C) Arm. D) Leg. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Leg. 18. Which one of following statements best describes 'Extension' movement at a joint? A) Movement towards the mid-line of the body. B) Bending the limbs at a joint. C) Straightening limbs at a joint. D) A circular movement around a fixed point. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Straightening limbs at a joint. 19. Your skull (cranium) is an important bone that protects your ..... ? A) Liver. B) Heart. C) Brain. D) Lungs. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Brain. 20. What is the purpose of the red bone marrow? A) To produce muscle tissue. B) To regulate body temperature. C) To produce red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. D) To store excess fat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To produce red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets. 21. These send messages to the brain. A) Nerves. B) Ligaments. C) Tendons. D) Muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nerves. 22. What are the four main food groups of elves? A) Candy corn, gum, chocolate, and Twix bars. B) Candy, candy corn, candy canes, and syrup. C) Candy, cookies, coffee, and cake. D) Candy, sugar, candy canes, and gum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Candy, candy corn, candy canes, and syrup. 23. The two divisions of the skeletal system are the ..... A) Appendicular and Appendix Skeleton. B) Appendicular and Astral Skeleton. C) Appendix and Axial Skeleton. D) Appendicular and Axial Skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appendicular and Axial Skeleton. 24. Red marrow can primarily be found in which of the following A) Vertebrae. B) Carpals. C) Phalanges. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vertebrae. 25. The shaft of a long bone is the: A) Periosteum. B) Epiphysis. C) Endosteum. D) Diaphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diaphysis. 26. What is the outer covering of the bones called? A) Marrow. B) Osteocytes. C) Periosteum. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Periosteum. 27. True or False:The skeletal system includes all the bones in the body. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 28. Defective mineralization of the bones in children is known as ..... A) Talipes. B) Dysplasia. C) Hypophosphatasia. D) Rickets. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rickets. 29. Red bone marrow can turn to yellow and back A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 30. What is the real name for your fingers? A) Carpals. B) Tarsals. C) Long bones. D) Phalanges. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Phalanges. 31. Bones of the arms, legs. shoulder and pelvic girdle make up the: A) Axial skeleton. B) Appendicular skeleton. C) Irregular bones. D) Boney thorax. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appendicular skeleton. 32. The hinge joint moves ..... A) In two directions. B) Up and down; forward and back. C) Forward and back; all around. D) In one direction. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) In one direction. 33. Which pair could be connected by a tendon? A) Biceps & scapula. B) Gluteus maximus & abdominals. C) Ulna & radius. D) Humerus & ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Biceps & scapula. 34. Cartilage helps protect the bones from becoming damaged A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 35. What is the function of a tendon? A) To link bones to bones. B) To link muscles to ligaments. C) To bind the cells in compact bone closer together. D) To link muscles to bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To link muscles to bones. 36. Most of the skeleton starts out as ....., which is later replaced by bone. A) Marrow. B) Cardiac. C) Cartilage. D) Spongy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilage. 37. Healthy ..... are usually pink in color. You have two of these. A) Trachea. B) Lungs. C) Alveoli. D) Epiglottis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Lungs. 38. Including the sacrum and the coccyx, how many bones make up the vertebral column? A) 30. B) 26. C) 10. D) 24. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 26. 39. Muscle contractions turn ..... energy into ..... energy. A) Chemical; thermal. B) Potential; chemical. C) Thermal; chemical. D) Chemical; potential. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chemical; thermal. 40. The bones of the forearm include the: A) Femur. B) Fibula. C) Humerus. D) Radius. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Radius. 41. Where is hematopoietic tissue found? A) Red bone marrow. B) Yellow bone marrow. C) Periosteum. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Red bone marrow. 42. Tissues that hold bones together at two or more joints. A) Cartilages. B) Ligaments. C) Tendons. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ligaments. 43. What is a flexible connective tissue that is found in your nose and ears? A) Cartilage. B) Joints. C) Ligaments. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 44. ..... is hard tissue that supports and protects the organs. A) Tendon. B) Cartilage. C) Ligament. D) Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bone. 45. What is the word for the definition Bursa sac? A) Burs/o. B) Cost/o. C) -painted. D) -Plastic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Burs/o. 46. Why might your heart rate be slower? A) You are exercising. B) You are resting. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) You are resting. 47. Which system works with our skeletal system to help us move? A) Hinge. B) Nervous. C) Muscular. D) Vernous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muscular. 48. What type of bone is large, strong, and flat? A) Flat bones. B) Irregular bones. C) Short bones. D) Long bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flat bones. 49. I am the lining present behind the eyes, where light falls and image is formed, who am i? A) Lense. B) Retina. C) Cornea. D) Pupil. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Retina. 50. A spine disorder where the person often hunches and makes the spine curve excessively at the upper backbone is called ..... A) Kyphosis. B) Tuberculosis. C) Scoliosis. D) Lordosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Kyphosis. 51. Joint that allows you to move your arm in all directions. A) Ball-and-socket joint. B) Hinge joint. C) Gliding joint. D) Sprain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball-and-socket joint. 52. Name two types of bone A) Irregular and Saddle. B) Flat and Irregular. C) Pivot and Irregular. D) Condyloid and Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat and Irregular. 53. About how many muscles do you have in your body? A) 100. B) 600. C) 50. D) 1, 000. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 600. 54. What is the endosteum? A) The lining on the outer surface. B) The inner lining of the medullary cavity. C) Yellow marrow. D) The end of the long bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The inner lining of the medullary cavity. 55. HOW MANY BONES DOES YOUR BIG TOE HAVE COMPARED TO YOUR OTHER TOES? A) 4 bones. B) 2 bones. C) 5 bones. D) 3 bones. E) 1 bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 2 bones. 56. If you were told to remove the bone that is deep to your thigh what bone would it be? A) Humerus. B) Joint. C) Tibula. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Femur. 57. Which bone is referred to as the Collar Bone ..... A) Humerous. B) Rib. C) Scapular. D) Clavicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clavicle. 58. Posterior part of pelvic bone A) Ilium. B) Sacred. C) Pubis. D) Ischium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ischium. 59. ..... forms blood cells & platelets A) The periosteum. B) Yellow bone marrow. C) Red bone marrow. D) Medullary cavity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red bone marrow. 60. True or False. A fracture is not as severe as a broken bone. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. ← 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