Skeletal System Quiz 309 (20 MCQs)

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1. The public found what they believe is a child's body. How can the body's approximate age at time of death be determined?

Correct Answer: D) By the ossification of bones and eruption of adult teeth.

2. Types of Fractures:The Fracture is completely across the bone.

Correct Answer: B) Transverse Fracture.

3. The longest bone in our body is stapes

Correct Answer: B) FALSE.

4. What classification of bone does the pelvis belong to?

Correct Answer: C) Irregular.

5. A pigment that colors the skin

Correct Answer: B) Melanin.

6. ..... are cavities containing osteocytes that are arranged in concentric rings.

Correct Answer: A) Lacunae.

7. A tough band of tissue that holds bone together at the joints are called?

Correct Answer: B) Ligaments.

8. Long, short, irregular are all?

Correct Answer: A) Types of bone.

9. Which of the following is NOT included in the Skeletal System?

Correct Answer: C) Nerves.

10. Hormone produced in the bone

Correct Answer: D) Osteocalcin.

11. What are immobile joints called?

Correct Answer: A) Sutures.

12. In long bones, spongy bone is located

Correct Answer: A) In the epiphysis.

13. Long bones start out as ..... ?

Correct Answer: A) Hyaline cartilage.

14. A very strong connective tissue that attaches skeletal muscle to bone.

Correct Answer: B) Tendons.

15. This part of the skeletal system has over half of the body's bones.

Correct Answer: A) Appendicular.

16. Another name for the hand bones

Correct Answer: A) Metacarpals.

17. Forms part of the wrist join in the upper limb.

Correct Answer: A) Radius.

18. The ..... is called the cradle of RBC's and WBC's.

Correct Answer: C) Bone Marrow.

19. Which of the following is not an example of a long bone (i.e., :mostly made of compact bone w/ the bone typically being longer than it is wider)

Correct Answer: B) Scapula.

20. Cells that build or form bone are called

Correct Answer: A) Osteoblasts.