This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 7 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 7 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Dense tissue in which cells are organized in osteos with no spaces A) Spongy bone. B) Osteoblasts. C) Compact bone. D) Osteoclasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Compact bone. 2. Tissue lining the medullary cavity within a bone A) Periosteum. B) Marrow. C) Epiphysis. D) Endosteum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Endosteum. 3. What is the average number of bones in an adult human? A) 203 bones. B) 206 bones. C) 208 bones. D) 200 bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206 bones. 4. Yellow Marrow mainly does this: A) Stores Fat. B) Produces RBC's. C) Stores potassium. D) Produces WBC's. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stores Fat. 5. Which of the following bones is classified as irregular in shape? A) Vertebra. B) Ulna. C) Patella. D) Frontal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vertebra. 6. Doesn't have blood vessels A) Cartilage. B) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 7. Define this major function Movement A) Our muscles are attached to our bones in a way which allows movement. B) It protects our delicate organs e.g.-the SKULL protects the BRAIN, and the RIB CAGE protects the HEART and LUNGS etc . C) Red and white blood cells are produced in the bone marrow found in many bones. D) Minerals like calcium are stored in the bones to add strength. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Our muscles are attached to our bones in a way which allows movement. 8. ..... Irregular Bones A) Bones of the skull. B) Bones of the veterbal and sacrum. C) Bones such as the humerous, femur, radius, ulna and fibula. D) Bones phalanges and carpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bones of the veterbal and sacrum. 9. What kind of joint are the joints in the toes? A) Ball and Socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Saddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge. 10. From the video clip we watched in class, how long will a baby live who has osteogenesis imperfecta after birth? A) The baby will not survive birth. B) A few days or weeks. C) A month. D) Just a year. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A few days or weeks. 11. Provide passageways for blood vessels these are in vertical columns A) Volkmann Canals. B) Haversian Canals. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Haversian Canals. 12. Where are the metatarsals located? A) The instep of the foot. B) The toes. C) The leg. D) The top of the foot. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The instep of the foot. 13. What is the axial skeleton made of? A) Skull only. B) Arms and Limbs. C) Torso only. D) Head to torso. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Head to torso. 14. What bone forms the forehead? A) Frontal. B) Temporal. C) Forward. D) Parietal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Frontal. 15. We inhale ..... gas through nose. A) Carbon dioxide. B) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Oxygen. 16. Where is red bone marrow located? A) Epiphyses. B) Compact Bone. C) Diaphysis. D) Blood vessels. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Epiphyses. 17. Which joint type allows no movement? A) Amphiarthrosis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Assembly. D) Diarthrosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assembly. 18. Which cells dissolve and reabsorb calcium salts? A) Lymphocytes. B) Osteoclast. C) Osteoblast. D) Bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoclast. 19. What is the word for the definition Breakdown? A) OA. B) Orth/o. C) TKA. D) -lysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) -lysis. 20. In endochondral ossification, what happens to the chondrocytes? (cartilage cells) A) They form the periosteum. B) They develop into tendons. C) They develop into osteocytes (bone cells). D) They develop into ligaments. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) They develop into osteocytes (bone cells). 21. Humans have this type of skeleton. A) Exoskeleton. B) Calcioskeleton. C) Superskeleton. D) Endoskeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Endoskeleton. 22. What is the scientific name of the 'jaw bone'? A) Clavicle. B) Mandible. C) Humerus. D) Clavicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mandible. 23. What does the term 'oma' mean? A) Inflammation. B) Softening. C) Abnormal condition. D) Tumor, mass. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tumor, mass. 24. Which terms means "an incision into the skull" ? A) Craniectomy. B) Craniostomy. C) Cranioma. D) Craniotomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Craniotomy. 25. Allow little or NO movement (Ex. Skull) A) Immovable joints. B) Pivot joints. C) Ball and socket joints. D) Hinge joints. E) Gliding joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immovable joints. 26. How many bones are babies born with? A) 300. B) 305. C) 288. D) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 300. 27. Red and white blood cells are manufactured in the bones. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 28. Which of the following is NOT a type of joint? A) Pivot. B) Fused. C) Swing. D) Hinge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Swing. 29. What part of the bone makes red and white blood cells? A) Yellow Bone Matter. B) Bone Blood. C) White Bone Tissue. D) Red Bone Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Red Bone Marrow. 30. Which nutrient is essential in keeping strong bones? A) Vitamin D. B) Iron. C) Vitamin C. D) Calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Calcium. 31. Which is the process where the body works to keep its internal environment constant (balanced)? A) Cell. B) Homeostasis. C) Tissue. D) Muscular. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Homeostasis. 32. This type of fracture occurs when the bone breaks in multiple locations? A) Comminuted. B) Open/Compound. C) Simple. D) Greenstick. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Comminuted. 33. Examples:Femur Shoulder A) Irregular Bone. B) Short Bone. C) Long Bone. D) Flat Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Long Bone. 34. Type of joint that is immovable, called sutures A) Synarthrotic. B) Amphiarthrotic. C) Diarthrotic. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Synarthrotic. 35. True or False:LIGAMENTS are also part of the skeletal system. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 36. How many thoracic vertebrae are there? A) 7. B) 5. C) 8. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12. 37. How many bones are there in a adults human body? A) 206. B) 200. C) 300. D) 306. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 206. 38. The muscles of your esophagus are A) Smooth. B) Rough. C) Cardiac. D) Skeletal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Smooth. 39. Muscles present in our heart are known as A) Voluntary muscles. B) Cardiac muscles. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cardiac muscles. 40. Epiphyses is the cartilage at the end of what types of bones? A) Cranial bones. B) All bones. C) Long bones. D) Short bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Long bones. 41. The three major bones of the leg(hindlimb) are: A) Radius, Ulna, Humerus. B) Tibia, Fibula, Femur. C) Tarsals, metatarsals, phalanges. D) Tibia, Radius, Ulna. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tibia, Fibula, Femur. 42. What is a ligament? A) Aa band of tissue that holds a joint together. B) Ba piece of tissue that cushions bones at joints. C) Can area in the center of a bone that produces blood cells. D) Da layer of collagen fibers that connects muscles and bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Aa band of tissue that holds a joint together. 43. The bone that connects all your ribs A) Rib cage. B) Vertebrae. C) Scapula. D) Sternum. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sternum. 44. How many vertebrae are in our cervical curve? A) 5. B) 12. C) 6. D) 7. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 7. 45. What part of the body has the highest number of bones? A) Feet. B) Back. C) Neck. D) Hands. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hands. 46. Which is the most simpliest? A) Cells. B) Systems. C) Organs. D) Tissues. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cells. 47. What does ligaments hold together? A) Muscle to muscle. B) Bone to muscle. C) Bone to bone. D) Bone to organ. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bone to bone. 48. ..... is the process in which bone matrix is broken down, while ..... is the process in which bone matrix is built/replaced. A) Deposition; resorption. B) Resorption; deposition. C) Resorption; hematopoiesis. D) Hematopoiesis; deposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Resorption; deposition. 49. Name an immovable joint in the skull. A) Mandible. B) Maxilla. C) Suture. D) Hinge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Suture. 50. An endoskeleton..... A) Is on the inside of the body . B) Is made of slime. C) Is on the outside of the body. D) Is made of fur. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Is on the inside of the body . 51. The common name for this bone is the collar bone A) Clavicle. B) Mandible. C) Sternum. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Clavicle. 52. How many bones are there in the human foot? A) 12. B) 20. C) 32. D) 26. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 26. 53. The two types of osseous tissue are ..... A) Bones and cartilage. B) Long bone and short bone. C) Spongy bone and cartilage. D) Dense bone and compact bone. E) Compact bone and spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Compact bone and spongy bone. 54. Bone cancer..... A) Osteoporosis. B) Osteosarcoma. C) Scoliosis. D) Osteomyelitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteosarcoma. 55. Hunchback (affects thoracic spine) A) Scoliosis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Lordosis. D) Kyphosis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Kyphosis. 56. The hip girdle is made up of ..... bones A) 3. B) 5. C) 2. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 3. 57. Tendon is strong but inelastic (not stretchable). A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 58. What is the largest and heaviest bone in the body? A) Fibula. B) Femur. C) Humerus. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Femur. 59. Muscles often work in ..... A) Groups. B) Order. C) Pairs. D) Bunches. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pairs. 60. 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