Skeletal System Quiz 34 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is yellow bone marrow located

Correct Answer: A) Medullary Cavity.

2. What is the disorder of the skeletal system that results in having very brittle, soft bones?

Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis.

3. Sickle Cells are shaped like .....

Correct Answer: C) Crescent.

4. In growing individuals, where would you find cartilage in the bone?

Correct Answer: A) Epiphyseal plate.

5. What type of joint is located in the knee and elbow?

Correct Answer: D) Hinge.

6. A fracture in which the bone breaks the skin

Correct Answer: C) Compound.

7. Endosteum:

Correct Answer: B) Covers inner surfaces of a long bone.

8. What are mature bone cells called?

Correct Answer: A) Osteocytes.

9. The outside layer of connective tissue that is present on long bones is:

Correct Answer: B) Periosteum.

10. The type of bone tissue that resists compressive forces, looks smooth & uniform.

Correct Answer: C) Compact bone.

11. It is also called as collarbone

Correct Answer: B) Clavicle.

12. Two bones from the elbow to the wrist are called .....

Correct Answer: A) The radius and the ulna.

13. The process of bone tissue formation (osteogenesis)

Correct Answer: D) Ossification.

14. The total number of bones in human body are:

Correct Answer: A) 206.

15. A group of organs that work together to perform a major function is an organ

Correct Answer: A) System.

16. Which of the following IS considered part of the axial skeleton

Correct Answer: D) All of these.

17. What are the Tendons?

Correct Answer: C) Attachs muscles to bones.

18. This keeps our bones from scratching against each other.

Correct Answer: B) Cartilage.

19. A process that grows out from a bone in order to allow for attachment is what classification of bone marking?

Correct Answer: B) Projection.

20. How many bones are there in adults

Correct Answer: C) 206.