This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 63 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 63 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A material that is soft and flexible ..... A) Ligament. B) Tendon. C) Bone marrow. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 2. Spongy bone location A) Found in the ends of longbones, inside vertebrae, ribs, skull, and pelvicbones. Surrounded bycompact bone. B) Forms the outer layer ofall bones, making up theshaft of long bones likethe femur and humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Found in the ends of longbones, inside vertebrae, ribs, skull, and pelvicbones. Surrounded bycompact bone. 3. Where do you find joints? A) In the middle of the bone. B) Near all bones except the spine. C) Where two bones meet. D) Only in hands and feet. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Where two bones meet. 4. What body part is inferior to the chest? A) Neck. B) Heart. C) Hips. D) Head. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hips. 5. Which is our shortest bone in our body? A) Femur, ears. B) Stapes, ears. C) Ulna, ears. D) Radius, ears. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stapes, ears. 6. This is a dense fibrous membrane that covers the surface of the bones except joints. A) Endorphins. B) Periosteum. C) Osteoplast. D) Hematoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periosteum. 7. Warming up prevents all of the following except ..... A) Sprains. B) Dislocations. C) Strains. D) Concussions. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Concussions. 8. Where is the yellow bone marrow found? A) Periosteum. B) Epiphysis. C) Epiphysial plate. D) Diaphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diaphysis. 9. What occurs in the third step of fracture healing? A) Bony callus formation. B) Bone remodeling. C) Torn blood vessels hemorrhage. D) Compact bone is laid down. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bony callus formation. 10. Bones come together at joints. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 11. Order the four layers of bone from outermost to innermost. A) Periosteum, spongy bone, compact bone, bone marrow. B) Compact bone, spongy bone, bone marrow, periosteum. C) Compact bone, periosteum, spongy bone, bone marrow. D) Periosteum, compact bone, spongy bone, bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Periosteum, compact bone, spongy bone, bone marrow. 12. Which type of fracture is most common in children under 10 years of age? A) Greenstick. B) Compound. C) Open. D) Comminuted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Greenstick. 13. What is the shape of the wrist and ankle bones? A) Long. B) Short. C) Flat. D) Irregular. E) Sesamoid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Short. 14. Skeletal muscles are voluntary. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 15. Movement of a limb away from the body midline is A) Adduction. B) Abduction. C) Extension. D) Flexion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abduction. 16. Which of the following is a type of fracture. A) Complete fracture. B) Yellowstick fracture. C) Closed fracture. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Complete fracture. 17. What type of joint would you find in the cranium? A) Fixed. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Ball and socket. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fixed. 18. Skull is made up of ..... bones. A) Can't say. B) 40. C) 22. D) 30. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 22. 19. The skull is a ..... A) Short bone. B) Irregular bone. C) Flat bone. D) Long bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flat bone. 20. What type of joint is knee? A) Ball And Socket. B) Hinge. C) Gliding. D) Pivot. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge. 21. Bones help your body to A) Maintain minerals. B) Maintain homeostasis. C) Maintain cells. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Maintain homeostasis. 22. Red Bone Marrow is eventually replaced by what as we get older? A) New blood. B) Fat. C) Yellow bone marrow. D) Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yellow bone marrow. 23. Which one of the following is the primary function of long bones? A) Movement, support, protection. B) Protection and attachment sites for muscles. C) Act as levers for muscles and to provide support. D) Provides shock absorption, flexibility, elasticity and movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Act as levers for muscles and to provide support. 24. Inflammation of bone or bone marrow due to infection A) Osteomyelitis. B) Herniation. C) Scoliosis. D) Spondylitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteomyelitis. 25. The smallest muscle in your body is found in your ..... A) Leg. B) Arm. C) Stomach. D) Ear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ear. 26. Which system is responsible for supporting the body? A) Skeletal. B) Muscular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal. 27. Choose the correct answer:Large lower leg bone A) Skull. B) Femur. C) Sacred. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tibia. 28. An adult has ..... bones in their body A) 200. B) 206. C) 300. D) 250. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 29. The spine is a ..... A) Irregular. B) Flat. C) Short bone. D) Long bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irregular. 30. Which is NOT a functional classification for joints? A) Amphiarthroses. B) You got it together. C) Cartilaginous. D) Diarthroses. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilaginous. 31. Which of the following roots does not refer to a lower extremity? A) Clavic/o. B) Ischi/o. C) Calcaneus. D) Femor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clavic/o. 32. Inflammation of a joint caused by build up of uric acid crystals in the joint-usually happen in big toe A) Osteoarthritis. B) Gout. C) Osteoporosis. D) Rheumatoid Arthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gout. 33. Where are the blood cells of the body formed? A) Brain. B) Heart. C) Blood vessels. D) Bone Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bone Marrow. 34. The organic part of bone makes it ..... This allows the bone to be ..... A) Flexible; harder. B) Tough; flexible. C) Flexible; bend & not break. D) Tough ; hard. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flexible; bend & not break. 35. Childhood bone condition similar to osteomalacia, but it occurs due to imperfect mineralization of the growth plate A) Osteogenesis imperfecta. B) Osteoarthritis. C) Ricketts. D) Fibrous dysplasia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ricketts. 36. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING CAN BE GROUPED UNDER THE BALL AND SOCKET JOINT. A) SHOULDER JOINT. B) ELBOW JOINT. C) NECK JOINT. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) SHOULDER JOINT. 37. Inflammation of the fascia is called fasciitis. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 38. Your skin is part of which body system? A) The respiratory system. B) The nervous system. C) The circulatory system. D) The integumentary system. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The integumentary system. 39. Central axis bones are part of the ..... skeleton. A) Cranial. B) Axial. C) Pectoral. D) Pelvic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axial. 40. What type/classification of bone is the scapula/clavicle known as the ..... ? A) Short. B) Flat. C) Irregular. D) Long. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat. 41. A ..... is the connection between two or more bones of the skeleton. A) Joint. B) Ligament. C) Muscle. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Joint. 42. Which joint is shown in the above image? A) Pivot joint. B) Hinge joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pivot joint. 43. Red bone marrow produces most of the body's A) Bone cells. B) Red blood cells. C) White blood cells. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red blood cells. 44. The elbow is considered a A) Hinge joint. B) Pivot joint. C) Ball and socket joint. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinge joint. 45. The marrow protects bones A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) False. 46. What is an example of a short bone? A) Patella. B) Carpals. C) Vertebrae. D) Phalanges. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carpals. 47. The skeleton is a column of interlinked bones, with two legs, two arms, and a skull. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 48. When a bone has been twisted apart, the injury is called a ..... fracture. A) Oblique. B) Comminuted. C) Transverse. D) Spiral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spiral. 49. The skull is part of the ..... skeleton. A) Axial. B) Appendicular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Axial. 50. Which of the following tissue connects bone to bone? A) Tendon. B) Cartilage. C) Joint capsule. D) Ligament. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ligament. 51. Which bone is known as the heel of the foot? A) Fibula. B) Calcaneus. C) Tibia. D) Patella. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calcaneus. 52. Cause:Old Age, Hyperparathyroidism (overactive thyroid), Eating Disorders. A) Ricketts. B) Achondroplasia. C) Osteogenesis Imperfecta. D) Osteomyelitis. E) Osteoporosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Osteoporosis. 53. Your radius and ulna are in your A) Skull. B) Arm. C) Back. D) Leg. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arm. 54. What is on the pinky side or outside of your lower arm? A) Radius. B) Tibia. C) Phibia. D) Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ulna. 55. What type of muscle controls many types of movement within the body? A) Smooth. B) Cardiac. C) Skeletal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smooth. 56. The cranium is a fixed joint A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 57. Tough, fibrous membrane that covers and protects the outer surface of bone. A) Spongy bone. B) Compact bone. C) Bone marrow. D) Periosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Periosteum. 58. Triangular bones of the back that resemble wings. A) Vertebrae. B) Humerus. C) Scapula. D) Coccyx. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Scapula. 59. Which animal's skeleton is most like your skeleton? A) Frog. B) Bat. C) Chimpanzee. D) Cat. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chimpanzee. 60. What type of marrow makes fat cells? A) Red. B) Blue. C) Yellow. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Yellow. ← 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