Skeletal System Quiz 421 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is this a picture of?

Correct Answer: B) Closed fracture.

2. What do you call the two forearm bones?

Correct Answer: C) Ulna and Radius.

3. The bones in the spine are called .....

Correct Answer: D) Vertebrae.

4. The function of the matrix is to provide the bone with .....

Correct Answer: C) Flexibility.

5. Which system protects the heart and lungs?

Correct Answer: A) Skeletal.

6. What is bone remodeling?

Correct Answer: A) A process in which osteoclasts resorb bone and osteoblasts deposit bone.

7. What is the human skeleton divided into?

Correct Answer: C) Axial and Appendicular.

8. This is the hardest working muscle in our human body.

Correct Answer: B) Cardiac muscle.

9. A bone is considered

Correct Answer: B) An organ.

10. One of the main functions of the skeletal system is to .....

Correct Answer: C) Protect our organs.

11. Your bones are alive.

Correct Answer: A) True.

12. The patella is commonly known as your knee cap.

Correct Answer: A) True.

13. The long shaft of a bone is called the:

Correct Answer: B) Diaphysis.

14. A disease caused by calcium and vitamin D deficiency.

Correct Answer: A) Rickets.

15. Which of following answer choices is NOT a movable joint?

Correct Answer: A) Skull Bones.

16. What are the two categories of skeletal joints?

Correct Answer: A) Moveable & Immoveable.

17. A blood clot that forms within 6-8 hours after a bone breaks, due to broken blood vessels.

Correct Answer: A) Fracture hematoma.

18. In which kind of bone fracture does the bone break and protrude through the skin?

Correct Answer: C) Compound.

19. How many bones are in the average infants body

Correct Answer: A) 350.

20. The vertebrae are attached to each other by

Correct Answer: C) Ligaments.