Skeletal System Quiz 117 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which type of bone tissue is very dense and strong?

Correct Answer: B) Compact Bone.

2. Which body systems work together when you touch a hot pan and pull your hand away?

Correct Answer: D) Skeletal/muscular and nervous systems.

3. What is spongy bone?

Correct Answer: D) The layer of bone that makes the bones lightweight.

4. Incomplete longitudinal break

Correct Answer: A) Fissured.

5. What is a common cause of fractures?

Correct Answer: A) Large forceful impact.

6. Which bone is known as shin bone?

Correct Answer: A) Tibia.

7. A bone that is more wide than it is long and is generally cube shaped is considered a(n):

Correct Answer: D) Short bone.

8. Young female chicken, does not lay eggs

Correct Answer: C) Pullets.

9. Production of red blood cells

Correct Answer: C) Hemopoiesis.

10. The longset bone in the human

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

11. An ..... is where two or more bones meet

Correct Answer: B) Joint.

12. What type of joint is the neck?

Correct Answer: C) Pivot.

13. What is the name of the bone in the thigh?

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

14. Which of the following is TRUE on skeletal system function?

Correct Answer: A) Involved in protection of internal organs.

15. Tiny pasageways or canals that connect lacunae to each other and the central canal

Correct Answer: C) Canaliculi.

16. Which of the following is not apart of the axial skeleton?

Correct Answer: B) Humerus.

17. Which of these are involuntary muscles?

Correct Answer: A) Stomach.

18. Prefix that means "within" or "into"

Correct Answer: D) Intra-.

19. Which of the following is an example of a sesamoid bone?

Correct Answer: C) Patella.

20. In the second step of bone formation

Correct Answer: C) Hyaline cartilage is digested away leaving a cavity in newly formed bone.