This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 72 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 72 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Functions of the skeletal system include all of the following except A) Support. B) Regulate growth and development. C) Protection. D) Movement. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Regulate growth and development. 2. Which of the following serves as the framework for the body? A) Nerves. B) Blood. C) Muscles. D) Skeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skeleton. 3. My elbow is ..... to my fingers A) Inferior. B) Superior. C) Proximal. D) Distal. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proximal. 4. Your ankle and wrist are examples of ..... joints. A) Gliding. B) Ball and socket. C) Pivot. D) Hinge. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gliding. 5. What is a Muscular System? A) A body system that is the framework of bones that supports an organism's body, protects its organs, and allows the body to move. B) An independent structure that carries out a specific job for the body. C) A body system of all the muscles of the body that allow movement when they contract, or shorten. D) An independent body part that has a job. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A body system of all the muscles of the body that allow movement when they contract, or shorten. 6. What is the word for the definition skull? A) Skulls. B) Son/daughter. C) -hiss. D) -painted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skulls. 7. Which ion, when present, changes the conformation of tropomyosin? A) Lithium. B) Potassium. C) Calcium. D) Sodium. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calcium. 8. Bones are connected to bones by A) Cartilage. B) Ligaments. C) Bones. D) All. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ligaments. 9. Lacuna form rings called A) Osteoactic rings. B) Haversian Rings. C) Osseous. D) Lamella. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lamella. 10. The following are the human upper extremity bones correctly matched to their quantity except: A) Humerus:2. B) Ulna:2. C) Carpals:16. D) Metacarpals:20. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Metacarpals:20. 11. This type of bone shape is classified as longer than wide, with a shaft that has heads at both ends, and is made of mostly compact bone. A) Short. B) Thin. C) Long. D) Flat. E) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Long. 12. What type of skeleton is the Human Body A) None of the above. B) Hydrostatic. C) Exoskeleton. D) Endoskeleton. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Endoskeleton. 13. The APPENDICULAR skeleton consists of ..... bones. A) 80. B) 206. C) 126. D) 300. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 126. 14. The fibrous membrane covering the outer surface of the bone is the ..... A) Endosteum. B) Periosteum. C) Epiphysis. D) Diaphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Periosteum. 15. The cranium is made up of eight bones. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 16. The hollow part of long bone is called the ..... A) Medullary cavity. B) Spongy bone. C) Periosteum. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Medullary cavity. 17. Your spine is made of ..... ? A) 1 Big Bone. B) Many, many small bones. C) 3 Bones. D) There are no bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Many, many small bones. 18. Why is a compound fracture more serious than other fractures? A) It can develop into a hairline fracture. B) It is not more serious. C) It has a much higher risk of infection. D) It make people feel sick looking at it. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) It has a much higher risk of infection. 19. True or False:The foot has a similar structure as the hand. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 20. This type of tissue connects and holds our muscles to our skeleton. A) Cartilage. B) Tendons. C) Ligaments. D) Joints. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tendons. 21. Which is NOT a bone shape in the skeletal system? A) Circular. B) Flat. C) Long. D) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Circular. 22. The human adult skeleton has approximately how many bones? A) 106. B) 166. C) 206. D) 266. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 206. 23. The humerus meets the radius and ulna at the ..... A) Shoulder joint. B) Ankle joint. C) Elbow joint. D) Knee joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Elbow joint. 24. The cranium is made up of how many bones? A) 12. B) 8. C) 6. D) 4. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 8. 25. How do you spell the process where bone is formed? A) Ossification. B) Ossification. C) Ossification. D) Ossification. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ossification. 26. What vitamins and minerals are important for our Bones A) Calcium and Plutonium. B) Calcium and vitamin D. C) Vitamin D and Plutonium. D) Vitamin C and Calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Calcium and vitamin D. 27. What is the function of sebaceous glands? A) You will produce tallow. B) Produces sweat. C) Produces oil. D) Produces blood. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) You will produce tallow. 28. These cells are responsible for adding new collagen and minerals to bones A) Osteoblast. B) Stem Cells. C) Periosteum. D) Osteoplast. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Osteoblast. 29. Which of the following functions of the bones work with the muscular system to move our body? A) Support. B) Movement. C) Protection. D) Storage & production. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Movement. 30. What joint is moving side to side only A) Hinge joint. B) Pivot joint. C) All joint. D) Gliding joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pivot joint. 31. This cell helps build bone structures A) Periosteum. B) Lamellae. C) Osteoblasts. D) Osteoclasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoblasts. 32. Name the type of fracture based on the description:Bone segments are pulled apart as a result of a twisting motion A) Comminuted. B) Greenstick. C) Transverse. D) Spiral. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Spiral. 33. The epidermis contains ..... A) Keratin. B) Melanin. C) Hair. D) All of the choices listed here. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All of the choices listed here. 34. The skeletal muscles work in pairs (i.e. when one tightens, the other relaxes). A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 35. How many bones are in the human skeleton? A) 212. B) 206. C) 150. D) 200. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 36. The muscular system gets energy (nutrients) from the digestive system A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 37. The axial skeleton is located in the upper part of the body A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 38. Meets 2 parietals A) Sagittal suture. B) Coronal suture. C) Squamous suture. D) Lambdoid suture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sagittal suture. 39. The tiny bones found in your wrist A) Carpals. B) Metacarpals. C) Phalanges. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Carpals. 40. How do you call the soft bones found in your ears and nose? A) Cartilage. B) Ligament. C) Joints. D) Bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilage. 41. What type of muscle lines the inside of the stomach? A) Cardiac. B) Skeletal. C) Smooth. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Smooth. 42. The bones that form the long part of the foot are: A) Tarsals. B) Phalanges. C) Metatarsals. D) Metacarpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Metatarsals. 43. In the ribcage ..... pair of ribs are called floating ribs A) 4. B) 1. C) 2. D) 3. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 2. 44. Name the pathology. A) Enchondroma. B) Osteochondroma. C) Osteoporosis. D) Osteosarcoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enchondroma. 45. Which part of the bone creates new red and white blood cells? A) Compact Bone. B) Cartilage. C) Marrow. D) Spongy Bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Marrow. 46. What is the squamous suture A) Suture between the parietal and temporal bones. B) Suture between the two parietal bones. C) Suture between the parietal and occipital bones. D) Suture between frontal and parietal bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Suture between the parietal and temporal bones. 47. The bone that protects the brain is called: A) Ribs. B) Femur. C) Phalanges. D) Skull. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Skull. 48. Bones are the strongest A) Before 10. B) 30-60. C) 18-30. D) 10-18. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 18-30. 49. What is the name of the bones that start at the base of your skull and go down your back? A) Spine. B) Ribs. C) Cranium. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spine. 50. Where would you find a voluntary muscle? A) In blood vessel walls. B) Attached to the femur. C) Inside the heart. D) Lining the stomach. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Attached to the femur. 51. SKULL, PELVIS, AND RIBS (COSTALS) A) Long. B) Short. C) Flatt. D) Sesamoid. E) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flatt. 52. What does Osteoporosis effect in a humans Skeletal system. A) Chest. B) Heart. C) Brain. D) Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bones. 53. This is an example of incomplete fracture in children. Name thisfracture A) Bowing Fracture. B) Torus Fracture. C) Transverse Fracture. D) Greenstick Fracture. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bowing Fracture. 54. What do your vertabrae protect? A) Spinal cord. B) Lungs. C) Brain. D) Heart. E) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Spinal cord. 55. How do muscle attached to the bones move the body? A) Automatically. B) Pull movements only. C) Push movements only. D) Both b and c. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pull movements only. 56. Gridles are ..... like bony structures A) Ring. B) Chord. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ring. 57. What is the condition called when more bone is broken down than replaced? A) Arthritis. B) Osteoporosis. C) Rheumatoid arthritis. D) Osteoarthritis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Osteoporosis. 58. The function of t tubules in mucle contraction is to A) Make and store glycogen. B) Release $Ca^{2^+}$. C) Transmit an impulse deep into the muscle cell. D) Make proteins. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Transmit an impulse deep into the muscle cell. 59. True or False:Body systems work together to maintain homeostasis. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 60. There are four stages in the healing of a bone fracture. Which of the following gest illustrates the sequence of these stages? A) Hematoma, fibrocartilage callus, bony callus, bone remodeling. B) Bony callus, hematoma, fibrocartilage callus, bone remodeling. C) Fibrocartilage callus, bone remodeling, hematoma, bony callus. D) Bone remodeling, bony callus, fibrocartilage callus, hematoma. 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