Skeletal System Quiz 183 (20 MCQs)

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1. ..... gives our body shape and structure

Correct Answer: A) Skeleton.

2. These are small cubed shaped bones; bones of the wrists, ankles, and toes.

Correct Answer: B) Short Bones.

3. A synonym for expand is?

Correct Answer: A) Grow.

4. What type of bone is the sternum?

Correct Answer: C) Flat.

5. What are functions of the skeleton?

Correct Answer: D) All of these.

6. Forms part of the elbow joint in the upper limb.

Correct Answer: A) Ulna.

7. Which of the following tissues is made up of cells that conduct impulses?

Correct Answer: D) Nervous.

8. Blood vessels and osteoblasts invade the cartilage tissue and develop the primary ossification center.

Correct Answer: C) Step 3 of Endochondral Ossification.

9. Attaches the muscle to the bone

Correct Answer: D) Tendon.

10. If the bones provide structure, and the muscles provide movement, what do the joints provide?

Correct Answer: B) Flexibility.

11. What is the combining form for bone marrow?

Correct Answer: D) Myel/o.

12. What disease of the joints that affect mostly elderly people?

Correct Answer: D) Arthritis.

13. The joint which allows movement in all the directions is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Ball and socket joint.

14. Fingers

Correct Answer: A) Metacarpals.

15. What do we call the smaller bones that make up the spinal column?

Correct Answer: D) Vertebrae.

16. What are the five bones forming the palm of the hand called?

Correct Answer: A) Metacarpals.

17. Porous, containing less calcium, more gluten are the characteristics of ..... bones.

Correct Answer: A) Spongy.

18. The tough layer of connective tissue that covers the surface of bones

Correct Answer: A) Periosteum.

19. Firm, flexible, and smooth connective tissue found at the ends of bones

Correct Answer: A) Cartilage.

20. What is the function of the acetabulums?

Correct Answer: B) To attach the leg bones.