Skeletal System Quiz 276 (20 MCQs)

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1. What would be the synovial joint where the femur and tibia articulate?

Correct Answer: A) Knee.

2. The yellow marrow or medullary cavity stores and creates adipose tissue

Correct Answer: B) False.

3. The partial displacement of a bone from a joint is a:

Correct Answer: B) Subluxation.

4. What best describes skin?

Correct Answer: B) Flexible.

5. Where are smooth muscles?

Correct Answer: D) All of these answers are true.

6. The triangle shaped bones behind the ribs are called

Correct Answer: C) Scapula.

7. Osteoporosis can be simulated in an experiment by

Correct Answer: B) Soaking a bone in vinegar.

8. There are 3 STRUCTURAL joints. What are they?

Correct Answer: D) Fibrous, Cartilaginous, Synovial.

9. Fibrous sac that acts as a cushion to ease movement in areas subject to friction, such as shoulders, elbow and knees.

Correct Answer: B) Purses.

10. The vertebral column has ..... bone segments called vertebrae.

Correct Answer: C) 26.

11. A ..... is when an organ pushes through an area of weak muscle.

Correct Answer: B) Hernia.

12. Fov-

Correct Answer: A) Pit.

13. What is another name for your shoulder blade?

Correct Answer: C) Scapula.

14. Injury to the epiphyseal disc of a long bone

Correct Answer: B) impairs longitudinal bone growth.

15. Distal end moves while proximal end remains still

Correct Answer: B) Circumduction.

16. A femur is considered a .....

Correct Answer: B) Long bone.

17. True/False:Bones have living cells in them.

Correct Answer: A) True.

18. This law states that bones will adapt to the loads under which they are placed.

Correct Answer: A) Wolff's law.

19. What type of bone makes up the diaphysis?

Correct Answer: C) Compact bone.

20. Cardiac muscle.....

Correct Answer: A) Moves blood.