Skeletal System Quiz 324 (20 MCQs)

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1. What are tissues?

Correct Answer: B) A group of specialized cells that work together to preform a specific function.

2. What type of muscle is attached to bones?

Correct Answer: C) Skeletal.

3. Skeleton of the face, including the mandible

Correct Answer: C) Viscerocranium.

4. What fluid acts as a lubricant for the joint?

Correct Answer: A) Synovial Fluid.

5. Which of the following is not a cranial bone?

Correct Answer: B) Lumbar.

6. This bone cell is responsible for exchanging nutrients/waste within the bone tissue

Correct Answer: D) Osteocyte.

7. The scapula is an example of a/an .....

Correct Answer: C) Flat Bone.

8. Our bones have specialty ingredients that give them rigidity and hardness. Which of the below is most responsible for this?

Correct Answer: A) Calcium phosphate.

9. Which bones make up the skeletal system.

Correct Answer: A) Skull, humerus, ribs and tibia.

10. Striated and under involuntary control

Correct Answer: C) Cardiac Muscle.

11. Attach muscle to Bone

Correct Answer: C) Tendon.

12. Compact bone has ....., whereas spongy bone has .....

Correct Answer: B) Osteons; trabeculae.

13. Does an infants skeleton have bones

Correct Answer: B) No.

14. Function of the ..... skeleton is movement.

Correct Answer: B) Appendicular.

15. Enables swiveling motion

Correct Answer: C) Pivot joint.

16. Joints that allow for free movement are classified as

Correct Answer: B) Diarthrosis.

17. What happens when one muscle in a pair contracts?

Correct Answer: B) The other muscle relaxes.

18. The bone marrow is where ..... and ..... are made.

Correct Answer: C) Red and white blood cells.

19. The horse has about ..... bones.

Correct Answer: C) 205.

20. What type of movement do your hinge joints make?

Correct Answer: A) One-way movement.