Skeletal System Quiz 354 (20 MCQs)

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1. Attached to the sternum, it is only long bone in the human body that lies horizontally.

Correct Answer: A) Clavicle.

2. What are the joints in the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: A) Ball and socket, gliding, pivot, fused, hinge.

3. ..... join allows movement in several direction.

Correct Answer: A) Ball and socket.

4. Abnormal tone

Correct Answer: D) Dystonia.

5. Sutures of the skull are what type of joint?

Correct Answer: A) Fibrous.

6. What part of the bone allows blood vessels and nerve endings to enter into the bone through tiny openings and move through canals?

Correct Answer: C) Compact bone.

7. 8) The bones of the legs consist of what 3 bones?

Correct Answer: B) Thigh, Tibia, Buckle.

8. How many bones to babies have?

Correct Answer: A) 300.

9. An example of an injury to the axial skeleton is

Correct Answer: A) A hockey player with a broken rib.

10. Deep layer of the skin composed of the papillary and reticular layers

Correct Answer: B) Dermis.

11. Which of the following is the main function of the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: A) Producing red and white blood cells.

12. The middle section of the sternum is known as the .....

Correct Answer: D) Body.

13. Arms, legs, pelvis, fingers, toes-

Correct Answer: B) Appendicular Skeleton.

14. Bone marrow is located .....

Correct Answer: B) In the medullary cavity surrounded by compact bone.

15. The olecranon process is found on the:

Correct Answer: A) Radius.

16. Mature female pig

Correct Answer: B) Sow.

17. Breaks down bone to remove damaged or old cells, and release minerals into the blood stream

Correct Answer: C) Osteoclast.

18. What is your thigh bone called?

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

19. Which type of joint is found in our elbows and fingers

Correct Answer: B) Hinge.

20. Another name for the knee cap is the:

Correct Answer: B) Patella.