Skeletal System Quiz 9 (25 MCQs)

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1. Must be present in the blood at all times for the nervous system to transmit messages, for muscles to contract, and for blood to clot:

2. Why are joints very important to our body?

3. Bone layer that covers the bone.

4. Which system provides shape and support, enables you to move, protects your internal organs, and stores minerals?

5. Air spaces in the bones of the skull that act as resonating chambers for the voice

6. A ball and socket joint are found?

7. Bones are a storehouse of _____ and _____ minerals.

8. Why do adults have fewer bones than young children do?

9. _____ is a function of the skeletal system that is completed by joints, ligaments, and tendons.

10. Bones which protect parts of the body and act as a shell are called _____

11. The diaphysis is made up of most _____, while the epiphysis is made up of mostly _____

12. Where is the blood made?

13. The skeletal system does all of the following EXCEPT

14. What is the main function of bone marrow?

15. What do you call the thin, long bone in your arm?

16. Your thigh bone (femur) is which type of bone?

17. If your body were a tall building, your skeleton would be:

18. Finger is the common name for what bone?

19. Which set of bones is in your back and holds up your body?

20. How many bones are in the Appendicular Skeleton

21. What do bones store?

22. A tough band that joins muscles with bones is called _____

23. What does yellow bone marrow do?

24. _____ is not a function of the skeleton

25. Which bones are not fully movable?