Skeletal System Quiz 406 (20 MCQs)

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1. Soft bones are known as

Correct Answer: B) Cartilage.

2. Where is bone marrow?

Correct Answer: C) On the inside of bones.

3. So/o

Correct Answer: C) Bone.

4. What are the two main jobs of the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: C) Support and protect the body.

5. ..... muscles pull on bones to make them move.

Correct Answer: D) Skeletal.

6. What disease results from a loss of bone density?

Correct Answer: C) Osteoporosis.

7. Excessive movement of muscles of the body as a whole.

Correct Answer: A) Hyperkinesia.

8. Which joints in the human skeleton work in a similar way?

Correct Answer: D) Ankles and wrists.

9. Gets out of its normal position at the joint

Correct Answer: C) Dislocation.

10. Which of these bones does not belong to the group?

Correct Answer: D) Occipital.

11. The skull bones, vertebral column and bony thorax are included in the:

Correct Answer: B) Axial Skeleton.

12. Supports the hands and palms

Correct Answer: A) Metacarpals.

13. A ..... fractures occurs then the skin is broken and the bone protrudes through the open skin.

Correct Answer: A) Compound.

14. The bones that make up the upper part of the skull

Correct Answer: C) Fixed joints.

15. The direction toward the front of our body is called:

Correct Answer: C) Anterior.

16. Olecran/o

Correct Answer: A) Elbow.

17. Match the Structures of a Typical Bone:A

Correct Answer: B) Lamellae.

18. Flexing your foot; toes towards the ceiling

Correct Answer: A) Dorsiflexion.

19. The skeleton of infants is made of this material to allow for passage through the birth canal?

Correct Answer: B) Cartilage.

20. Another name for the collar bone is the .....

Correct Answer: A) Clavicle.