Skeletal System Quiz 181 (20 MCQs)

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1. What does the muscle tissue do?

Correct Answer: B) Allows movement.

2. What is the effect of calcitonin?

Correct Answer: B) To increase osteoblast activity.

3. Foot movement in which the bottom of the foot is turned laterally, away from the midline.

Correct Answer: A) Eversion.

4. This bone is in the lower leg and is known as the shin

Correct Answer: A) Tibia.

5. Where is the Ball and socket joint found?

Correct Answer: A) The ball and socket joint is found in the hips and shoulders.

6. Ankle Bones

Correct Answer: B) Tarsals.

7. Most abundant cartilage. Found in the coastal cartilage and of the nose

Correct Answer: B) Hyaline Cartilage.

8. Framework, protection, produce blood cells and storage

Correct Answer: B) Skeletal.

9. .... signals the brain as to what is going on in the outside world by using your fives senses.

Correct Answer: B) Sensory nerves.

10. The muscles whose movement can be controlled are called

Correct Answer: A) Voluntary muscles.

11. What is the longest bone in the human body?

Correct Answer: C) Femur.

12. The shoulder bone is called the

Correct Answer: B) Scapula.

13. What bone is in between your ribs?

Correct Answer: C) Sternum.

14. What are the two bones in the lower arm called?

Correct Answer: A) Radius/ulna.

15. What does the skull carry?

Correct Answer: C) Brain.

16. What is another name for breastbone

Correct Answer: A) Sternum.

17. What makes bones so straong

Correct Answer: D) Calcium and phosphorous.

18. Which part of the skeletal system produces most of the body's blood cells?

Correct Answer: D) Red marrow.

19. Thin inner layer of bone covering;lines the medullary cavity

Correct Answer: B) Endosteum.

20. How do you spell the process where bones become weak and break easily?

Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis.