This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Muscles are organs that A) Grow and reduce. B) Born and die. C) Expand and contract. D) Breathe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Expand and contract. 2. Which of the below is a hinge joint? A) Knee. B) Shoulder. C) Hip. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Knee. 3. Amphiarthroses ..... A) Are found in areas requiring protection. B) Allow for strength and flexibility. C) Allow body parts to move extensively. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Allow for strength and flexibility. 4. Hip and shoulder have examples of this type of joint A) Ball and socket. B) Condyloid. C) Hinge. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball and socket. 5. Which type of joint allow the bones to slide past one another? A) Hinge. B) Pivot. C) Ball & Socket. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gliding. 6. There are 33 ..... stacked on top of one another to make up your spinal column. A) Vertebrae. B) Backbone. C) Skull. D) Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Vertebrae. 7. Our cardiac muscle is an example of an involuntary muscle. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 8. What bone cells break bone tissue down? A) Osteons. B) Osteocytes. C) Osteoclasts. D) Osteoblasts. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoclasts. 9. A spiral break is caused by what type of trauma? A) Bending of the bone. B) Direct pressure at the diaphysis. C) Direct pressure at the epiphysis. D) Twisting at the ends of the bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Twisting at the ends of the bone. 10. How long does the remodeling phase of bone repair take? A) Minutes. B) Years. C) Weeks. D) Days. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Years. 11. Which term means surgical repair of a damaged joint? A) Synovectomy. B) Arthroplasty. C) Arthrodesis. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Arthroplasty. 12. Zoe, Avery, and Charlotte are studying the human skull. They noticed that the sphenoid, ethmoid, and frontal bones have something in common. What is it? A) They all make up the orbits of the eyes. B) They all touch the spinal cord. C) They are all paired bones. D) They are all in the back of the skull. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) They all make up the orbits of the eyes. 13. Vertebra have some movement, and they are connected by this type of joint A) Cartilaginous. B) Fibrous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Cartilaginous. 14. If a fracture does not pierce the skin but it no longer lined up it is A) Closed Nondisplaced. B) Closed Displaced. C) Open Nondisplaced. D) Open Displaced. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Closed Displaced. 15. What type of bone is a Carple ..... A) Sesamoid. B) Long. C) Irregular. D) Short. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Short. 16. What bone is your finger called A) Philangers. B) Femur. C) Tibia. D) Flanges. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flanges. 17. What is a Tendon? A) Muscle. B) Tissue that connects the bones with the muscle. C) Achilles danced. D) Tissue that connects my heart to the brain. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tissue that connects the bones with the muscle. 18. What is #2 pointing to? A) The frontal bone. B) The external auditory foramen. C) The madible. D) Temporal bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) The external auditory foramen. 19. A baby has about how many bones? A) 206. B) 600. C) 106. D) 300. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 300. 20. The ossification regions formed during embryonic development are A) Cartilage at the ends of bones. B) Primary ossification centers. C) Medullary cavities. D) Secondary ossification centers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Primary ossification centers. 21. How does bones help maintain homeostasis in the body? A) Cannot control calcium. B) Control of calcium and minerals in the blood. C) Cannot control minerals. D) Skeletal doesn't maintain homeostasis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Control of calcium and minerals in the blood. 22. I am aware that I have a test on the skeletal system on Friday March 24. It is my job now to prepare outside of class and seek additional help if need be. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 23. How many bones are there in the adult human body? A) 100. B) 206. C) 150. D) 300. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 24. In a muscle cell, which organelle is responsible for providing energy? A) Cytoplasm. B) Nucleus. C) Vacuoles. D) Mitochondria. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mitochondria. 25. Example of type of hinge joint in the body A) Atlas and axis. B) Knee/Elbow. C) Shoulder/hip. D) Fingers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Knee/Elbow. 26. Rigid and hard dense.Contain more calcium, less gluten.Those are the characteristics of ..... bones. A) Spongy. B) Compact. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Compact. 27. What is the longest bone in your body? A) Cranium. B) Clavicle. C) Femur. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Femur. 28. What is an osteoblast? A) A muscle. B) A joint. C) A tendon. D) A bone forming cell. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A bone forming cell. 29. What is a cord or band of tissue that connects muscles to bones? A) Fuse. B) Tendons. C) Ligaments. D) Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tendons. 30. Heart and lung are protected by A) Backbone. B) Ribcage. C) Gridle. D) Skull. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ribcage. 31. When calcitonin is released into the bloodstream, it causes the extra calcium in the ..... to be taken out and added to the ..... A. bloodstream/ bone matrixB. bone matrix/ bloodstreamC. bone marrow/ bone matrixD. bloodstream/ bone marrow A) Bloodstream/ bone marrow. B) Bloodstream/ bone matrix. C) Bone marrow/ bone matrix. D) Bone matrix/ bloodstream. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bloodstream/ bone matrix. 32. Non-striated and under involuntary control A) Skeletal Muscle. B) Smooth Muscle. C) Cardiac Muscle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Smooth Muscle. 33. What does the skeleton protect? A) Nothing. B) Our internal organs. C) Just our heart. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Our internal organs. 34. The skeleton that consists of 126 bones formed by the pectoral girdles, the upper limbs (Arms), the pelvic girdle, and the lower limbs (legs). A) Appendicular. B) Axial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Appendicular. 35. Bone cells that build up bone material are ..... A) Osteocytes. B) Amebocytes. C) Osteoblasts. D) Osteoclast. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoblasts. 36. What is a jelly-like stuff that produces blood cells? A) Morrow. B) Tomorrow. C) Marrew. D) Marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Marrow. 37. Bone tissue is referred to as ..... tissue. A) Articular. B) Smooth. C) Osseous. D) Adipose. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osseous. 38. The appendicular skeleton is composed of A) 126 bones. B) 206 bones. C) 80 bones. D) 10 bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 126 bones. 39. This bone protects your heart and lungs A) Sternum. B) Cranium. C) Tibia. D) Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ribs. 40. Bones that have immovable joints ..... A) Move. B) Do not move. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Do not move. 41. What is produced by your bones? A) Fat. B) Carbon Dioxide. C) Blood cells. D) Oxygen. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood cells. 42. An area of cartilage tissue in long bones that is consistently being replaced by new, bony tissue as the bone grows; also known as the epiphyseal line or growth plate A) Bursa sac. B) Tibia. C) Epiphyseal plate. D) Carpals. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Epiphyseal plate. 43. Many WBC mature is thymus located in A) Throat. B) Chest. C) Liver. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Chest. 44. The synovial fluid is a slippery fluid that ..... A) Reduces friction between the bones in the joint. B) Allows oxygen to be transported throughout the body. C) Enables the clotting of blood when there is a cut in our blood vessel. D) The liquid excreted out of our body. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reduces friction between the bones in the joint. 45. In connective tissue, what is the non-living material that surrounds the cells called? A) Extracellular fluid. B) Matrix. C) Cartilage. D) Fibrocytes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Matrix. 46. A bundle of fascicles best describes a A) Muscle fiber. B) Myofibril. C) Muscle tissue. D) Tendon. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Muscle tissue. 47. The suffix-a-an, -ic, -ious means what? A) Having a negative connotation. B) Pertaining to. C) Opposite or contrary. D) Related to numbers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pertaining to. 48. The functions of the skeletal system is to A) Support:holds us up. B) Movement:allows us to move. C) Storage:stores chemicals like calcium, fatty acids, phosphorus. D) Blood:creates blood, bone marrow, stem cells. E) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) All of the above. 49. Babies have ..... bones than adults do. A) Fewer. B) More. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) More. 50. A strong, smooth, flexible connective bone like tissue that protects your joints and bones. Some are found in ears and nose A) Cranium. B) Bone marrow. C) Joint. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Cartilage. 51. What do we call the individual bones found in our spine? A) Radius. B) Vertebrae. C) Pelvis. D) Phalanges. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vertebrae. 52. What type of joint allows the greatest freedom of movement? A) Ball and socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) Gliding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ball and socket. 53. The strongest joint in the body is the (a) joint. A) Elbow. B) Wrist. C) A knee. D) Ankle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A knee. 54. Bones are classified according to their function in the body and their shape. A) False. B) True. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) True. 55. Which hormone is activated when calcium levels in blood are high? A) Calcitonin. B) Growth hormone. C) Parathyroid hormone (PTH). D) Insulin. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calcitonin. 56. Bones of the wrist could be classified as A) Short Bones. B) Long Bones. C) Irregular Bones. D) Flat Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Short Bones. 57. Which kind of joint movement describes the movement of a limb in a circle such as an overarm tennis serve? A) Abduction. B) Circumduction. C) Rotation. D) Flexion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circumduction. 58. ..... is released when your blood is LOW in calcium A) Parathyroid. B) PTH. C) Thyroid. D) Calcitonin. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) PTH. 59. How many bones are in the Skeletal System? A) 175. B) 206. C) 200. D) 203. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) 206. 60. What is the main function of the spinal column? A) To form the palm of the hand. B) To produce blood. C) To absorb shock between vertebrae. D) To protect the spinal cord. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To protect the spinal cord. ← 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 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books