Skeletal System Quiz 375 (20 MCQs)

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1. Larger bone of the lower arm

Correct Answer: B) Ulna.

2. What is the function of your cardiac muscle?

Correct Answer: C) Pumps blood through the heart.

3. Allows bones to resist breaking when compressed.

Correct Answer: C) Calcium and phosphate minerals.

4. Bones are mostly made of which type of tissue?

Correct Answer: C) Connective.

5. Where are the Phalanges located?

Correct Answer: A) On your fingers and toes.

6. The bones of fingers and toes

Correct Answer: A) Phalanges.

7. It Is made up of 33 small bones called

Correct Answer: A) Vertebrae.

8. Tiny canals that connect osteocytes

Correct Answer: C) Canaliculi.

9. Creates a smooth surface for motion within the joints and protects the ends of bones.

Correct Answer: A) Cartilage.

10. Where in the body is the metacarpus found?

Correct Answer: B) Hands.

11. What are the rings that make up osteons called?

Correct Answer: C) Lamellae.

12. The type of bone tissue that is hard and dense

Correct Answer: A) Compact Bone.

13. Smallest bone in your body.

Correct Answer: D) Stapes.

14. Consists of the bones along the axis of the body, skull, vertebrae, ribs

Correct Answer: A) Axial Skeleton.

15. Which of the following bone are found in your arm?

Correct Answer: B) Radius.

16. ..... causes weak bones that do not form properly, and can be caused by a lack of calcium and vitamin D.

Correct Answer: D) Rickets.

17. How does marrow change throughout a person's lifetime?

Correct Answer: A) Infants contain a lot of red marrow, and over time much of it gets converted to yellow marrow.

18. Where can you classify the skull bone?

Correct Answer: A) Flat bones.

19. Ball and socket joint found in

Correct Answer: A) Shoulders.

20. Which two major organs are protected by the thorax (or ribcage)?

Correct Answer: B) Heart and Lungs.