Skeletal System Quiz 238 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the function of ligaments?

Correct Answer: D) To hold bones together.

2. What is the hardest substance in the human body?

Correct Answer: A) Tooth enamel.

3. Which of the following means "the moveable bone in front of the knee; kneecap

Correct Answer: C) Patella.

4. A joint occurs wherever 2 or more ..... meet.

Correct Answer: A) Bones.

5. A muscle that opposes the actions of another is known as a(n) .....

Correct Answer: A) Antagonist.

6. Which of the following bones is part of the axial system?

Correct Answer: A) Sternum.

7. Yous Skeletal system is like a?

Correct Answer: C) Tall Building.

8. What joint is found in the hip and shoulder?

Correct Answer: E) Ball & Socket.

9. Softening of bones associated with vitamin D deficiency.

Correct Answer: B) Osteomalacia.

10. During the embryonic stage, bones are mostly composed of what?

Correct Answer: A) Hyaline cartilage.

11. What is another name for the collarbone?

Correct Answer: A) Clavicle.

12. What is the membrane that lines the inside of the long bone and the medulary cavity called?

Correct Answer: D) Endosteum.

13. ..... is a flexible material at the end of bones, the tip of your nose, in your ears, and at the end of your sternum.

Correct Answer: C) Cartilage.

14. What is responsible for creating red blood cells?

Correct Answer: D) Bone marrow.

15. The components of the human skeletal system are

Correct Answer: C) Bones, tendons, ligaments, cartilage.

16. Inside the bone, what produces blood cells?

Correct Answer: D) Bone marrow.

17. Your cranium or skull protects which organ?

Correct Answer: D) Brain.

18. A group of cells that perform a specific function is called a(n)-

Correct Answer: C) Tissue.

19. Contains bones, ligaments, cartilage and joints

Correct Answer: B) Skeletal.

20. What is another term for broken bone?

Correct Answer: B) Fracture.