Skeletal System Quiz 337 (20 MCQs)

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1. What joins the bones together?

Correct Answer: C) Joints.

2. What is the joint where the rounded end of one bone fits into a ring?

Correct Answer: D) Pivot.

3. Which one is not included as Appendicular skeleton?

Correct Answer: A) Sternum.

4. Nicole a fitness guru feels compelled to do a few jumping jacks. Which movement is taking place as her hands come together above her head?

Correct Answer: D) Abduction.

5. What type of bone marrow produces blood cells?

Correct Answer: B) Red.

6. What is the longest bones in the human skeleton?

Correct Answer: C) The femur.

7. One similarity between the big toes and the thumb is

Correct Answer: C) Both have 2 phalanges.

8. Which bone is responsible for protecting your heart?

Correct Answer: A) Sternum.

9. What is the function of the Cranium?

Correct Answer: C) Helps protect the brain.

10. What is the name of the skeletal disease that is caused by the lack of vit D?

Correct Answer: C) Rachitis.

11. Arthritis is

Correct Answer: A) It is a term that describes the pain and disease of a joint.

12. This function of the skin that allows the body to retain or lose heat.

Correct Answer: A) Body temperature regulation.

13. Fx

Correct Answer: A) Fracture.

14. What does hemapoietic tissue do?

Correct Answer: C) Forms red blood cells.

15. Where do muscle fiber and neurons meet

Correct Answer: C) Neuromuscular Junction.

16. The prime mover for inhalation.

Correct Answer: A) Diaphragm.

17. A function of the skeletal system is to protect vital organs.

Correct Answer: A) True.

18. Bones can act as a reservoir for calcium and phosphorus and serve as the fat storage such asfats stored in the ..... of long bones.

Correct Answer: A) Yellow bone marrow.

19. Cordlike structures that attach muscle to bone (page 141)

Correct Answer: C) Tendon.

20. The place in a bone where bone marrow is stored.

Correct Answer: A) Medullary Cavity.