Skeletal System Quiz 389 (20 MCQs)

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1. How many bones does the adult human skeletal system have?

Correct Answer: C) 206 bones.

2. The smallest bone in our body is in .....

Correct Answer: C) Your ear (Stapes).

3. What is made in bones?

Correct Answer: B) Blood (Marrow).

4. Which system controls all of the other body systems?

Correct Answer: D) Nervous.

5. Which of the following means "the soft substance inside bones in which blood cells are made?"

Correct Answer: A) Marrow.

6. What type of exercise is best for maintaining bone mass?

Correct Answer: A) Weightlifting.

7. The type of bone located where stresses are limited in direction is called

Correct Answer: A) Compact bone.

8. Red blood cells, white blood cells, and platelets are made in the .....

Correct Answer: A) Red bone marrow.

9. Which group of bones protects the eyes and brain?

Correct Answer: A) Skull.

10. The suffix cyte means

Correct Answer: D) Cell.

11. Ankle and wrist have flat bones, type of joint

Correct Answer: B) Gliding.

12. Over 50 bones can be found here:

Correct Answer: A) Hand/Wrist.

13. Which general observations are matched properly?

Correct Answer: A) Sway back is lordosis, humped back is kyphosis, curved back is scoliosis.

14. Where is marrow found?

Correct Answer: C) In the center of bones.

15. Which of these have 22 bones?

Correct Answer: A) Skull.

16. In adults, the substance at #6 would be

Correct Answer: C) Yellow marrow.

17. The bones are a hard, dense type of connective tissue.

Correct Answer: A) True.

18. Ligaments connect bones to .....

Correct Answer: A) Bones.

19. In adults, where do you find cartilage in the bone?

Correct Answer: B) At the ends of the bone.

20. The ..... skeletal division is involved in locomotion and manipulation of the environment.

Correct Answer: B) Appendicular.