This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 71 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 71 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which body system provides a framework that supports the body? A) Skeletal. B) Muscular. C) Circulatory. D) Nervous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skeletal. 2. What do bones store? A) Calcium. B) Uranium. C) Sodium. D) Plutonium. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calcium. 3. The neck is an example of which type of joint? A) Hinge. B) Ball and Socket. C) Ellipsoid/Condyloid. D) Pivot. E) Saddle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pivot. 4. The skeletal system produces..... A) Red blood cells. B) White blood cells. C) Both. D) Neither. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Both. 5. Lower, inner leg bone A) Fibula. B) Patella. C) Phalanges. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tibia. 6. The long bones are important for movement and what other purpose? A) Making Vitamin K. B) Storing blood cells. C) Making bone marrow. D) Protection. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Making bone marrow. 7. Air spaces within the skull. A) Fontanels. B) Foramina. C) Sinuses. D) Sutures. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sinuses. 8. What does your skull protect? A) Bridget. B) Barney. C) Brian. D) Brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Brain. 9. If you have a sprain, it means you've injured a ligament. A) TRUE. B) FALSE. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) TRUE. 10. The following is important for good bone health A) Calcium. B) Vitamin D. C) Phosphorus. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All. 11. Name the joint that makes up the elbows, knees, and fingers. A) Ball and Socket Joint. B) Hinge joints. C) Pivot Joint. D) Gliding Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge joints. 12. Mature Female Chicken A) Rooster. B) Cow. C) Sow. D) Hen. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hen. 13. Skull have how many flat bones A) Eight. B) Nine. C) Twelve. D) Fifteen. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eight. 14. Another name for the foot bones A) Carpals. B) Tarsals. C) Metatarsals. D) Metacarpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metatarsals. 15. How much bones are in a human? A) 144. B) 23. C) 204. D) 890. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 204. 16. What type of movement does your pivot joint make? A) One-way movement. B) It doesn't move. C) Gliding and twisting movement. D) Circular, all-around movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Circular, all-around movement. 17. What are the 4 types of bones? A) Flat, Long, Irregular, Short. B) Flat, Irregular, Clumped, Long. C) Irregular, Raised, Long, Flat. D) Long, Flat, Irregular, Small. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Flat, Long, Irregular, Short. 18. How many muscles it takes to smile? A) 20. B) 25. C) 10. D) 15. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 15. 19. In our skull, how many bones form the frame of the face? A) 12. B) 8. C) 22. D) 14. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 14. 20. What are the factors that affect bone development, growth, and repair? A) -Nutrition-Exposure to sunlight-Hormone secretions-Physical exercise. B) -Chemicals-Medications-Hormones-Physical exercise. C) -Body weight-Body height-Physical therapy-Nutrition. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) -Nutrition-Exposure to sunlight-Hormone secretions-Physical exercise. 21. Which of the following is part of the Shoulder girdle? A) Radius. B) Ilium. C) Sternum. D) Scapula. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scapula. 22. Attached to the skull that is made up of 26 irregularly shaped hollow bones called vertebra that are stacked on top of each other that encloses it A) Ribs. B) Scapula. C) Spinal column. D) Clavicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal column. 23. The solid base of the veterbal column that connect to the ilium A) Humerus. B) Femur. C) Sacred. D) Coccyx. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sacred. 24. Which of the following is not a function of the bone A) Support. B) Give a place for muscles to attach. C) Red blood cells are produced in bone marrow. D) Allows blood to flow to the organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Allows blood to flow to the organs. 25. Another name for Slighty Movable A) Immovable. B) Cartilaginous. C) Tawi. D) Synovial. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cartilaginous. 26. Choose the correct answer:Just above coccyx A) Sacred. B) Sternum. C) Femur. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sacred. 27. The wrist and ankle bones are considered what type of joint? A) Ball and socket. B) Pivot. C) Hinge. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gliding. 28. What helps keep your bones healthy? A) Vitamin D and Sunshine. B) Soda and Takis. C) Tacos. D) Rain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vitamin D and Sunshine. 29. One bone rotates around another (ex. Neck) A) Immovable joints. B) Pivot joints. C) Ball and socket joints. D) Hinge joints. E) Gliding joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pivot joints. 30. Symptoms:Bone Pain, Stunted Growth, Bowed Legs A) Osteoporosis. B) Osteogenesis Imperfecta. C) Achondroplasia. D) Ricketts. E) Osteomyelitis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ricketts. 31. Caused by excessive bone twisting A) Greenstick. B) Transverse. C) Comminuted. D) Spiral. E) Fissured. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spiral. 32. The pulling or tearing of a muscle is a ..... A) Sprain. B) Strain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Strain. 33. What do you call the two unattached pairs of ribs? A) Floating. B) Removed. C) Unattached. D) Separated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Floating. 34. Which joint allows free movement? A) Osteoporosis. B) Amphiarthrosis. C) Diarthrosis. D) Assembly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Diarthrosis. 35. The portion of the skeleton that contains the extremities of the body. A) Axial skeleton. B) Diaphysis. C) Epiphysis. D) Appendicular skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Appendicular skeleton. 36. Shatters bones into more than pieces A) Transverse Fracture. B) Hairline Fracture. C) Comminuted Fracture. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Comminuted Fracture. 37. Hair follicles, blood vessels, nerves and glads can be found in which layer of skin? A) Middledermis. B) Hypodermis. C) Dermis. D) Epidermis. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Dermis. 38. What do tendons connect? A) Tendons connect muscles to bones. B) Tendons connect muscles to organs. C) Tendons connect muscles to nerves. D) Tendons connect bones to bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tendons connect muscles to bones. 39. You have ..... pairs of costals, attached posteriorly to the thoracic vertebrae A) 6. B) 10. C) 2. D) 12. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 12. 40. What will happen if bones has NO Collagen? A) Too Fragile. B) Too Flexible. C) Too Hard. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Too Fragile. 41. Which of the following would be found in the neck? A) Tsz. B) L4. C) Come on. D) Q10. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tsz. 42. What organs make up the skeletal system? A) Skin. B) Bones. C) Muscles. D) Blood vessels. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bones. 43. The mass of wrist bones that articulates with the radius and ulna is the A) Tarsals. B) Humerus. C) Carpus. D) Phalanges. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carpus. 44. How many bones does the adult human skeleton consist of? A) 106. B) 306. C) 406. D) 206. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 206. 45. It is made up of organic components and is responsible for the resilience of the bones. A) Long bones. B) Short bone. C) Both. D) None of the Choices. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) None of the Choices. 46. What does the thoracic cage protect? A) Brain. B) Vital organs. C) Skin. D) Eyeballs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vital organs. 47. B3 A group of bones that protect the brain is the A) Skull. B) Backbone. C) Rib cage. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skull. 48. A fracture in which the neck of the bone "pushes into" the head of the same bone, causing the bone to collapse on itself is called a(n) ..... fracture. A) Greenstick. B) Impacted. C) Comminuted. D) Spiral. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Impacted. 49. Ligaments are..... A) Connects bone to joints. B) Connects bone to bone. C) Connects bone to tendons. D) Connect bone to tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connects bone to bone. 50. What is the primary function of the muscular system? A) Movement. B) Protection. C) Storage. D) Circulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Movement. 51. What is the job of a flat bone? A) Main bones used for gross motor movements. B) Support the weight of the body during physical exercise. C) Allow for fine motor movements. D) Protection for vital organs and anchor for muscles to attach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Protection for vital organs and anchor for muscles to attach. 52. Which bone group typically is made of spongy bone surrounded by a thin layer compact bone? A) Irregular bones. B) Long bones. C) Flat bones. D) Short bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flat bones. 53. True or False-Cardiac muscle is involuntary. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 54. What are the collarbones called? A) Carpals. B) Clavicles. C) Femur. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Clavicles. 55. The neck is considered a A) Hinge joint. B) Pivot joint. C) Ball and socket joint. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pivot joint. 56. Can you find out the largest bone in our body? A) Humerus. B) Femur. C) Cranium. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Femur. 57. Which form of arthritis is associated with the formation of uric acid crystals in the joint? A) Osteoarthritis. B) Gout. C) Rheumatoid arthritis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gout. 58. Which bone is suspended in the neck and not directly connected to other bones? A) Hyoid bone. B) Clavicle. C) Occipital bone. D) Vertebrae. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hyoid bone. 59. .... is the main pathway that sends information from your brain and throughout your body. A) Blood vessels. B) Nerves. C) Spinal cord. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Spinal cord. 60. What part of the bone is lightweight and is located inside the compact bone and the ends of bones? A) Red marrow. B) Yellow marrow. C) Periosteum. D) Spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spongy bone. ← 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