Skeletal System Quiz 152 (20 MCQs)

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1. Another name for the prime mover is

Correct Answer: B) Agonist.

2. A procedure used to repair a bone in the spine that has a break caused by cancer, osteoporosis, or trauma.

Correct Answer: A) Vertebroplasty.

3. Osteoporosis is:

Correct Answer: A) Thinning and weakening of bones.

4. Where can you find cartilage?

Correct Answer: B) Ears, tip of the nose and lining the surface of the joints.

5. What hold bones together called?

Correct Answer: B) Ligaments.

6. What type of ribs attach directly to the sternum?

Correct Answer: A) True.

7. Composed of bones that protect some delicate organs of the body

Correct Answer: B) Axial skeleton.

8. What type of voluntary muscles attaches to bones and provides the force needed to move the bones?

Correct Answer: C) Skeletal.

9. What type of cells make bone tissue?

Correct Answer: C) Osteoblasts.

10. Excitability:

Correct Answer: C) Muscle response to certain stimuli.

11. What color are the frontal sinuses? b

Correct Answer: B) B BLUE.

12. Blood is a type of .....

Correct Answer: B) Connective Tissue.

13. The human skeletal system is made up of .....

Correct Answer: A) Bones.

14. Where do you find compact bone in a long bone?

Correct Answer: A) Around the outside, especially along the diaphysis.

15. What type of connective tissue joins bones to bones at the joints?

Correct Answer: D) Ligament.

16. What special joint is located in your thumb?

Correct Answer: C) Saddle.

17. The production of blood cells.

Correct Answer: A) Hematopoiesis.

18. Gout can be described as-

Correct Answer: D) A type of arthritis in which uric acid builds up in the blood, causing joint swelling and pain.

19. A metabolic bone disease caused by deficiency of vitamin D is referred to as:

Correct Answer: A) Osteomalacia.

20. How many key bones are found in the spine?

Correct Answer: C) 5.