Skeletal System Quiz 268 (20 MCQs)

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1. The ends of a long bone

Correct Answer: D) Epiphysis.

2. What is hydro?

Correct Answer: A) Water.

3. Babies are born with almost 600 bones.

Correct Answer: B) False.

4. An ..... is a type of bone cell that builds bone.

Correct Answer: B) Osteoblast.

5. Which of the following is part of the Ankle?

Correct Answer: D) Talus and calcaneus.

6. Which section of the vertebral column has 5 vertebrae?

Correct Answer: C) Lumbar.

7. Which type of skeleton division is the skull, vertebrae, and thorax a part of?

Correct Answer: B) Axial.

8. What area can a ball and socket joint be found?

Correct Answer: B) Shoulder.

9. What is the definition of ligament

Correct Answer: C) Short band of flexible connective tissue.

10. Last two pairs of ribs

Correct Answer: B) Floating ribs.

11. Which connective tissue connects bones to bones?

Correct Answer: A) Ligaments.

12. What is the soft flexible tissue that is all over your skeleton adding padding and protection between bones?

Correct Answer: D) Cartilage.

13. How many key bones are found in the arm?

Correct Answer: A) 8.

14. Which muscles work in pairs to allow movement at the knee joint

Correct Answer: B) Hamstring and quadricep.

15. The smallest bone in your body is inside your ear called as Stapes. Which is the biggest bone?

Correct Answer: B) The thighbone in your leg.

16. Where are non-movable joints are found

Correct Answer: B) Skull.

17. How does an X-ray work?

Correct Answer: D) Light is sent to your body and the hard bone absorbs the light so it is seen in the x-ray picture.

18. There are ..... lumbar vertebra; whereas there are ..... thoracic vertebra.

Correct Answer: E) 5;12.

19. ..... is the bone which contains almost contains the whole weight of the body

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

20. The first layer of the skin is called .....

Correct Answer: B) Epidermis.