This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 68 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 68 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. How many bones are you born with? A) Over 300. B) Over 400. C) 206. D) 106. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Over 300. 2. Bone cells that absorbs bone tissue during bone growth and healing are called A) Osteoclasts. B) Osteocytes. C) Osteoblasts. D) Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoclasts. 3. Another name for the backbone is the ..... A) Tissue. B) Neurotransmitters. C) Spine. D) Nerves. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spine. 4. In extreme blood loss or anemia what happens? A) The body converts red bone marrow into yellow bone marrow. B) The body stops producing bone marrow. C) The body converts Yellow bone marrow in red bone marrow. D) The body produces more yellow bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) The body converts Yellow bone marrow in red bone marrow. 5. When a muscle becomes shorter and causes movement it is said to have? A) Contractibility. B) Extensibility. C) Elasticity. D) Atrophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contractibility. 6. Which part of the bone is the diaphysis? A) The shaft. B) The epiphysis. C) The bottom. D) The top. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The shaft. 7. What are joints? A) Joints are a type of connecting tissue. B) Joints are the point at which your bones come together. C) Joints are the bones that are inside your legs. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joints are the point at which your bones come together. 8. In the Endosteum, what type of bone cells are found that can repair broken bones? A) Osteoblast. B) Osteocyte. C) Osteoclast. D) Chondroblast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoblast. 9. The cavity in bone that stores red and yellow marrow. A) Medullary cavity. B) Fibrous joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Medullary cavity. 10. Composed of 126 bones A) Axial Skeleton. B) Appendicular Skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Appendicular Skeleton. 11. A group of organs make up an A) Nervous system. B) Organ system. C) Circulatory system. D) Skeletal system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Organ system. 12. What is the main purpose of cartilage in the skeletal system? A) Cartilage allows you to turn your neck. B) Cartilage protects your soft organs. C) Cartilage prevents your bones from being broken. D) Cartilage cushions bones to keep them from grinding together. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage cushions bones to keep them from grinding together. 13. We can estimate the age of a person by looking at their: A) Humerus. B) Pelvis. C) Phalanges. D) Nose. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pelvis. 14. Mineral loss in bone can lead to ..... A) Bone cancer. B) Death. C) Osteoporosis. D) Arthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoporosis. 15. What does the red blood marrow produce A) Cartilage. B) Blood Cells. C) Bone Cells. D) Fat. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blood Cells. 16. Which type of joint provides the most stability? A) Fixed Joint. B) Slightly Moveable Joint. C) Synovial Joint . D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fixed Joint. 17. The functions of bones are ..... A) Protection, storage, hematopoiesis, movement, support. B) Protection, storage, support, excreting, and movement. C) Protection, support, digestion, flexibility, and leverage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Protection, storage, hematopoiesis, movement, support. 18. The only movable bone in the skull is the ..... A) Nasal bone. B) Mandible. C) The jaws. D) Vomit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mandible. 19. Bones and joints work with muscles to move the body A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. What is a hole in a skeletal system called? A) Foramen. B) Tunnel. C) Canal. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foramen. 21. Bones that are thin and often curved are A) Irregular bone. B) Flat bone. C) Long bone. D) Short bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flat bone. 22. What is the name for a broken bone? A) Compound. B) Fraction. C) Periosteum. D) Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fracture. 23. In the front of the body, floating ribs connect to: A) Nothing. B) Lumbar vertebrae. C) Sternum. D) Thoracic vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Nothing. 24. A ban of fibrous, slightly elastic connective tissue that attaches 1 bone to another is called ..... A) Connection. B) Tendon. C) Joint. D) Ligament. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ligament. 25. Though outer converting of bones A) Epidermis. B) Periosteum. C) Marrow. D) Dermis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periosteum. 26. During bone remodeling, what is the bony callus remodeled by? A) Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts. B) Collagen Fibres. C) Osteoclasts. D) Osteoblasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoclasts and Osteoblasts. 27. Which bones are commonly known as the collarbones? A) Ribs. B) Scapulae. C) Sternum. D) Clavicles. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Clavicles. 28. Types of bones, axial A) Combination of long bones (for leverage andmovement) and short bones (for finer controland wider range of motion). B) Mostly flat bones designed forprotection. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mostly flat bones designed forprotection. 29. ..... are where two or more bones in your body come together. A) Bones. B) Joints. C) Cartilage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joints. 30. The longest and strongest bone is your ..... A) Radius. B) Ulna. C) Femur. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Femur. 31. Hip bones-near gluteus maximus muscle A) Pelvis. B) Vertebrae. C) Patella. D) Rib cage. E) Scapula. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pelvis. 32. Hey Ishaan, Sneha, and Alisha! Can you guess which body part is super important for tasting food? A) Leg. B) Mouth. C) Toe. D) Neck. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mouth. 33. Adult humans have ..... bones. A) 206. B) 211. C) 215. D) 216. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 206. 34. Identify the highlighted bone. A) Temporal. B) Parietal. C) Frontal. D) Occipital. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Frontal. 35. Tendons attach..... A) Bone to bone. B) Muscle to muscle. C) Bone to muscle. D) Ligament to bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bone to muscle. 36. Which nerve can be damaged by fracture of the surgical neck of the humerus? A) Musculocutaneous. B) Axillary. C) Median. D) Radial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Axillary. 37. What is another name for the spine? A) Vertebrae. B) Cranium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vertebrae. 38. What is a place in the skeleton where two or more bones meet? A) Mucles. B) Joints. C) Tendons. D) Ligaments. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joints. 39. Bones with varied shapes, usually connected to several other bones, such as vertebral bones and facial bones A) Irregular bones. B) Short bones. C) Long bones. D) Flat bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Irregular bones. 40. What bones are located in both your fingers and toes? A) Phalanges. B) Tarsals. C) Carpals. D) Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Phalanges. 41. How do bones move at plane joints? A) On many axes. B) They rotate around a ring. C) On a single axis. D) On two axes. E) They glide on each other. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) They glide on each other. 42. I am any of the 8 bones of the carpus/wrist. A) Vertebrae. B) Carpals. C) Cranium. D) Stapes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Carpals. 43. The lower jaw bone is called ..... A) Stirrup. B) Femur. C) Mandible. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mandible. 44. Joints that are able to slightly move are called? A) Amphiarthrotic. B) Diarthrotic. C) Synarthrotic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amphiarthrotic. 45. What is the name of bone that is very porous (small open spaces) and is often found at the end of large bones? A) Spongy bone. B) Ligaments. C) Cartilage. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spongy bone. 46. Are teeth bones? A) Yes. B) No. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) No. 47. The bone that forms the base of the skull is called ..... which is a cranial bone? A) Ethmoid. B) Sphenoid. C) Occipital. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Occipital. 48. The joints in your knee are moveable. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 49. What is the main function of the rib cage? A) Provide support for the head. B) Protect the lungs and heart. C) Aid in digestion. D) Assist in walking. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protect the lungs and heart. 50. The shaft or central part of the bone is also called the A) Periosteum. B) Diaphysis. C) Epiphysis. D) Endosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Diaphysis. 51. Vertebrae makes up your..... A) Hands. B) Wrists. C) Sternum. D) Spinal column. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spinal column. 52. What type of cartilage is involved in the endochondral ossification? A) Fibrocartilage. B) Elastic cartilage. C) Hyaline cartilage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hyaline cartilage. 53. What is your Skeletal system mostly made of? A) Robot. B) Vertebrate. C) Ulna. D) Skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skeleton. 54. -Inflammation of joints-Causes pain and swelling of joints-Due to the exhaustion of cartilage, depletion of synovial fluid and others The description of an impaired musculoskeletal system above is related to A) Arthritis. B) Muscular dystrophy. C) Muscle cramp. D) Osteoporosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arthritis. 55. The muscle which is relaxing A) Antagonistic. B) Antagonist. C) Anteater. D) Agonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antagonist. 56. What system(s) work with the skeletal system? A) Nervous system. B) Nervous and Muscular System. C) Muscular System. D) Every System. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nervous and Muscular System. 57. What is the layer of vascular connective tissue lining the medullary cavities of bone called? A) Cranium. B) Humerus. C) Endosteum. D) Femur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Endosteum. 58. The arm bone is called the ..... ; the forearm bones are the ..... and the radius. A) Shoulder / tibia. B) Pipe / clamp. C) Humerus / ulna. D) Fibula / ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Humerus / ulna. 59. What are the functions of the Integumentary System? A) Skin, hair, nails, sweat glands, oil glands. B) Produce movement, maintain posture, stabilize joints, generate heat. C) Protection, sensation (feeling), temperature regulation, vitamin d production, excretion (remove wastes). D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Protection, sensation (feeling), temperature regulation, vitamin d production, excretion (remove wastes). 60. What does the combining form scoli/o mean? A) Hump. B) Bent backward. C) Crooked. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Crooked. ← 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