Skeletal System Quiz 317 (20 MCQs)

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1. Hip bone is called the

Correct Answer: C) Coxal bone.

2. Striated and under voluntary control

Correct Answer: A) Skeletal Muscle.

3. What are the two essential minerals that are stored in the bones?

Correct Answer: C) Calcium & phosphorus.

4. Bone thinning disease.

Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis.

5. Your tibia is in your .....

Correct Answer: C) Leg.

6. Which part of your bone provides strength and rigidity?

Correct Answer: A) Compact bone.

7. The process of replacing connective tissue to form an intramembranous bone.

Correct Answer: C) Intramembranous ossification.

8. Which joints allow the greatest range of motion?

Correct Answer: C) Synovial.

9. Which is a curviture of the spine

Correct Answer: A) Scoliosis.

10. Fracture that occurs at the ankle and affects both bones of the leg

Correct Answer: E) Pott's.

11. What is another main function of the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: C) To support the body.

12. The vertebral column has how many total bones?

Correct Answer: A) 26.

13. Is a water-based skeleton which is a fluid-filled body cavity inside an organism.

Correct Answer: A) Hydrostatic Skeleton.

14. What is something that bones produce?

Correct Answer: A) Blood.

15. What is the scientific name for your shoulder bone?

Correct Answer: A) Scapula.

16. Is a mature bone cell that is surrounded by bone matrix and can communicate with nearby osteocytes through the bone canaliculi.

Correct Answer: B) Osteocyte.

17. Smooth, cardiac, and skeletal are three types that belong to which system?

Correct Answer: D) Muscular.

18. What are the bones of the hand called?

Correct Answer: A) Metacarpals.

19. System or framework that gives body structural support and shape such as the bones, ligaments, tendonds, and joints

Correct Answer: D) Skeletal.

20. What is produced inside bones?

Correct Answer: A) Blood cells.