Skeletal System Quiz 38 (20 MCQs)

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1. Caused by lack of Vitamin D-can lead to bowlegs and pigeon chest

Correct Answer: A) Rickets.

2. What is another word for shoulder blade?

Correct Answer: B) Scapula.

3. Circular movement of a limb

Correct Answer: C) Circumduction.

4. The bones of the wrist and ankle are these type of bones.

Correct Answer: B) Short bones.

5. Your body is made up of ..... bones.

Correct Answer: A) 206.

6. Which of the following is Not part of the Pelvic girdle?

Correct Answer: D) Tibia.

7. What is another name for your spine?

Correct Answer: C) Vertebrate.

8. Which bones make up your fingers?

Correct Answer: A) Phalanges.

9. Which is the longest bone in the body?

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

10. ..... synthesize bone matrix

Correct Answer: A) Osteoblasts.

11. Name for the lower jawbone

Correct Answer: B) Mandible.

12. -per cent

Correct Answer: B) Surgical puncture to remove fluid.

13. Bone tissue that is hard and dense is called .....

Correct Answer: A) Compact bone.

14. The soft connective tissue that covers and cushions the end of bones is called .....

Correct Answer: D) Cartilage.

15. The number of malleuses in the human body is usually

Correct Answer: B) 2.

16. What is M?

Correct Answer: B) External Oblique.

17. Your skeleton

Correct Answer: D) All of the above.

18. What is the main function of the fibula (smaller bone in the lower leg)?

Correct Answer: A) Provide attachment for muscles.

19. The bones of the skull have what are called fixed or ..... joints.

Correct Answer: A) Immovable.

20. Which of the following allows our bones to move?

Correct Answer: A) Joints.