Skeletal System Quiz 267 (20 MCQs)

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1. The jaw is an example of which joint?

Correct Answer: D) Condyloid.

2. Which type of vertebrae can impact mating?

Correct Answer: D) Coccygeal.

3. Which tissue type lines or covers our organs?

Correct Answer: C) Epithelial.

4. The function of the skeleton is to

Correct Answer: D) All the above.

5. How many bones does a baby have before they merge into adult bones?

Correct Answer: B) 300.

6. What is the function of tendons?

Correct Answer: C) To anchor the muscles to bone.

7. What is inside the long hollow tube which is formed with vertebrae?

Correct Answer: D) Nerves.

8. The shaft of the bone is the .....

Correct Answer: A) Diaphysis.

9. This connects bone to joints

Correct Answer: C) Ligaments.

10. Which term means an opening in a bone through which blood vessels, nerves, and ligaments pass?

Correct Answer: B) Foramen.

11. The function of Osteoclasts is

Correct Answer: D) All the above.

12. What is the thumb called?

Correct Answer: B) Thumb.

13. Joints may be classification by

Correct Answer: B) Function.

14. What material is located inside the bone that helps make blood?

Correct Answer: D) Bone marrow.

15. What is the outer covering of a bone called? ..... bone.

Correct Answer: A) Compact.

16. Synovial joints are freely movable.

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. What inorganic materials are stored in our bones?

Correct Answer: A) Salts, Calcium, Phosphorous, potassium.

18. The intervertebral discs that cushion the spine and absorb shock are composed of fibrocartilage.

Correct Answer: A) True.

19. Syn-

Correct Answer: C) Together.

20. Outer membrane

Correct Answer: A) Where blood vessels and nerves enter and leave the bone.