Skeletal System Quiz 205 (20 MCQs)

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1. Your radius and ulna are in your

Correct Answer: B) Arm.

2. What is on the pinky side or outside of your lower arm?

Correct Answer: A) Ulna.

3. What type of muscle controls many types of movement within the body?

Correct Answer: A) Smooth.

4. The cranium is a fixed joint

Correct Answer: A) True.

5. Tough, fibrous membrane that covers and protects the outer surface of bone.

Correct Answer: D) Periosteum.

6. Triangular bones of the back that resemble wings.

Correct Answer: A) Scapula.

7. Which animal's skeleton is most like your skeleton?

Correct Answer: D) Chimpanzee.

8. What type of marrow makes fat cells?

Correct Answer: C) Yellow.

9. Which bones are formed via intramembranous ossification?

Correct Answer: B) Skull bones.

10. ..... holds the skeleton together.

Correct Answer: D) Joints.

11. Two types of bone found in the skeletal system include ..... and .....

Correct Answer: D) Spongy and compact.

12. Vertebrae and facial bones are considered to be which classification of bone?

Correct Answer: B) Irregular.

13. What is the name of a mature bone cell?

Correct Answer: D) Osteocyte.

14. How many different classifications of bones are there?

Correct Answer: B) 4.

15. These muscles are found around your organs

Correct Answer: A) Smooth.

16. What is the main role of calcium in the body according to the text?

Correct Answer: D) For muscle contraction.

17. What is the lateral bone in the lower leg called?

Correct Answer: B) Fibula.

18. Hematopoeisis (blood formation) occurs in the

Correct Answer: B) Red marrow.

19. A mature bone cell is called a .....

Correct Answer: B) Osteocyte.

20. What is the functions of the bones.

Correct Answer: B) A Support structure for your body.