This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > General Knowledge > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 84 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 84 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. What is a cavity within a bone, filled with air and lined with mucous membrane? A) Fontanel. B) Foramen. C) Sinus. D) Whole. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Sinus. 2. Which joint exists between the metacarpals and the phalanges? A) Pivot. B) Condylar. C) Hinge. D) Plane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Condylar. 3. Has a fulcrum point A) First Class Lever. B) Second Class Lever. C) Third Class Lever. D) All Types of Levers. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) All Types of Levers. 4. The leg is a ..... A) Long bone. B) Flat bone. C) Short bone. D) Irregular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long bone. 5. ..... is the number of bones in the human body A) 206. B) 365. C) 400. D) 307. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) 206. 6. There are two types of bones in our body. Axial bones are one type. In general, what is their most important function? A) They don't do anything. B) They protect our inner organs. C) They help us move. D) The keep our bodies upright. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) They protect our inner organs. 7. Many cells form ..... that perform the same function. A) Organs. B) Tissues. C) Cells. D) Organ systems. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Tissues. 8. Name the joint that is found in wrists and ankles. A) Ball and Socket Joint. B) Hinge Joint. C) Pivot Joint. D) Gliding Joint. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Gliding Joint. 9. Shock absorbing gel between joints A) Ligaments. B) Tendon. C) Cartilage. D) Muscle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cartilage. 10. What is a place where to bones meet? A) Tendon. B) Joint. C) Marrow. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joint. 11. What is the role of the osteoclasts? A) Bone makers. B) Bone breakers. C) Cell makers. D) Bone remodelers. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bone breakers. 12. This type of marrow stores fat for energy. A) Red. B) Yellow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yellow. 13. What do you call strong bands of connective tissue that connect bones to other bones? A) Tendons. B) Bones. C) Cartilage. D) Ligaments. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ligaments. 14. What can you do to take care of your muscular system? A) Stretch and follow a healthy diet. B) Have your strength tested regularly. C) Do not lift heavy because it damages muscles. D) Eat a lot of protein and saturated fat. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Stretch and follow a healthy diet. 15. Which of the following is an organ in the skeletal system? A) Femur. B) Finger Nails. C) Quadriceps. D) Spinal Chord. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Femur. 16. In comparitive anatomy, which part in the chicken wing matches closest to the humerus? A) B. B) C. C) A. D) D. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. 17. I am a hard covering that holds a broken bone in place while it heals. What am I? A) Tissue. B) Cast. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cast. 18. What are the bottom two pairs of ribs called? A) False ribs. B) Floating Ribs. C) True Ribs. D) Connected Ribs. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Floating Ribs. 19. What direction does ossification occur in? A) From the top of the diaphysis. B) From the middle at the diaphysis. C) From the bottom of the diaphysis. D) From the middle in the epiphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) From the middle at the diaphysis. 20. Not under control A) Voluntary. B) Involuntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Involuntary. 21. The tissue that attaches bone to bone is ..... A) Ligament. B) Cartilage. C) Tendon. D) Bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ligament. 22. Bones are made of the following, EXCEPT: A) Nerves. B) Muscle tissue. C) Blood vessels. D) Bone tissue. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muscle tissue. 23. Where are red blood cells formed? A) Spongy bone. B) Yellow bone marrow. C) Red bone marrow. D) Compact bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Red bone marrow. 24. Bones are made of calcium A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 25. The three major groups of joints include all of the following, except: A) Condrioarthroses. B) You jointed. C) Diarthroses. D) Amphiarthroses. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Condrioarthroses. 26. Which type of joint are the knees, elbows and ankles? A) Hinge. B) Pivot. C) Ball and socket. D) Condyloid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hinge. 27. Soft connective tissue that produces blood cells, found inside the pores of spongy bone. A) Periosteum. B) Compact bone. C) Spongy bone. D) Bone marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bone marrow. 28. Hair grows from ..... located in the skin A) Dermis. B) Pores. C) Oil follicle. D) Hair follicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hair follicle. 29. What is the word for the definition Foot? A) -hiss. B) Under/o. C) Cost/o. D) -one. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Under/o. 30. What do tendons do? A) Holds bone to bone together. B) Holds muscle to bone together. C) It reduces friction between bones. D) It makes bones stronger. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Holds muscle to bone together. 31. In synovial joints the articular surfaces of the bones are covered with: A) Tendon sheaths. B) Synovial membranes. C) Elastic cartilage. D) Fibrocartilage. E) Hyaline cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Hyaline cartilage. 32. What does your bone marrow make? A) Germs. B) Muscles. C) Blood cells. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blood cells. 33. Bones that consist of a shaft plus two ends. A) Long bones. B) Limb bones. C) Sesamoid bones. D) Short bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Long bones. 34. Which bone is the longest and strongest in the human skeleton? A) Vertebra. B) Femur. C) Rib. D) Skull. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Femur. 35. Drinking milk, eating cheese and yoghurt is good for our bones because A) It builds our muscles. B) It gives us strength. C) It makes us energy. D) It gives us calcium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It gives us calcium. 36. ..... allows movement in many directions A) Hinge joint. B) Pivot joint. C) Ball and socket joint. D) Gilding joint . Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ball and socket joint. 37. Which is true bone development A) Calcification. B) Ossification. C) Clastification. D) Blastification. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ossification. 38. These tissues hold bones together at movable joints. A) Organs. B) Ligaments. C) Cells. D) Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ligaments. 39. Is this movement voluntary or involuntary? Pumping blood through your body A) Involuntary. B) Voluntary. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Involuntary. 40. It occurs when severe pressure is put on the joints, forcing the bones to move out of alignment that is always accompanied by ligament damage and sometimes, bone fracture. Symptoms include pain, rapid swelling, and discoloration in the affected area. A) Sprain. B) Rickets. C) Fracture. D) Dislocation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dislocation. 41. Fractured bones are different than broken bones A) No. B) Yes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yes. 42. Tadpoles breathe through their A) Lungs. B) Gills. C) Air holes. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Gills. 43. What part of a long bone makes up the shaft? A) Medullary cavity. B) Epiphysis. C) Spongy bone. D) Diaphysis. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Diaphysis. 44. A person is warming up for exercise by swinging their arms in wide circles. This type of movement is classified as A) Circumduction. B) Supination. C) Hyperextension. D) Dorsiflexion. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Circumduction. 45. Which term means the surgical suturing of a muscle? A) Myorrhaphy. B) Myectomy. C) Myotomy. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Myorrhaphy. 46. What does the Skeletal System provide us? A) Strength and rigidity. B) Rigidity. C) Strength. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strength and rigidity. 47. How many bones can you NOT see on a skeleton? A) 2. B) 8. C) 4. D) 6. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 6. 48. The axial skeleton consists of bones in the ....., ....., and ..... A) Skull, spinal column, chest. B) Skull, pelvic girdle, and chest. C) Pelvic girdle, pectoral girdle, and chest. D) Arms, legs, and girdles. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skull, spinal column, chest. 49. I am waterproof and have fibrous husk. What is my dispersal method? A) Animals. B) Wind. C) Explosive action. D) Water. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Water. 50. Which forearm bone allows movement? A) Metacarpals. B) Radius. C) Ulna. D) Humerus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Radius. 51. What is an organ system? A) Groups of similar types of cells that work together to carry out a specific task. B) Groups of different tissues working together to perform a particular job. C) Groups of different organs working together to complete a series of tasks. D) The smallest unit of life. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Groups of different organs working together to complete a series of tasks. 52. What is the function of the rib cage in the skeletal system? A) Supporting the head. B) Protecting the lungs and heart. C) Storing minerals. D) Aiding in digestion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Protecting the lungs and heart. 53. Moving in a circular shape. Allows for 360 degrees of movement A) Abduction. B) Circumduction. C) Adduction. D) Rotation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circumduction. 54. Where are your saddle joints located? A) My shoulders. B) My knees. C) My hips. D) The base of my thumbs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) The base of my thumbs. 55. Exoskeletons are soft. A) True. B) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 56. Small bones that develop in tendons where they reduce friction in places where tendons pass over bony prominences are called ..... A) Wormian bones. B) Irregular bones. C) Flat bones. D) Sesamoid bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sesamoid bones. 57. The wrist bone is called the ..... A) Tarsal. B) Ulna. C) Carpal. D) Tibia. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Carpal. 58. Storage of lipids occurs in the A) Red marrow. B) Yellow marrow. C) Osteon. D) Central canal. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Yellow marrow. 59. Tissues combine to form ..... A) Organ systems. B) Organelles. C) Cells. D) Organs. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Organs. 60. The upper bone in your leg. A) Humerus. B) Femur. 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