Skeletal System Quiz 441 (20 MCQs)

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1. More than 1/2 of your bones are found in your hands and feet.

Correct Answer: A) True.

2. The bone at joints are held together by

Correct Answer: B) Ligaments.

3. What is a good food to help with joint health?

Correct Answer: D) Bone broth/gelatin.

4. What are the rings around the haversian canal called?

Correct Answer: B) Lamella.

5. Bone growth that begins with a cartilage model is called

Correct Answer: B) Endochondral.

6. Which one of these in NOT a function of the skeleton?

Correct Answer: C) Production of body heat.

7. ..... is the slender smaller bone of the lower leg

Correct Answer: C) Fibula.

8. Membrane that covers and protects the outside of the bone:

Correct Answer: A) Periosteum.

9. Choose the correct answer:Surounds the lungs and protect them

Correct Answer: A) Rib cage.

10. Which of the following does the human skeleton does not consist of:

Correct Answer: C) Brain.

11. Phalanges

Correct Answer: A) Finger or toe bones.

12. Your knee is connected to muscles by ....., which help it move.

Correct Answer: A) Tendons.

13. What are found in limbs, has a shaft (diaphysis) and two ends (epiphyses)?

Correct Answer: D) Long bones.

14. The topmost layer of the skin

Correct Answer: B) Epidermis.

15. Most bones consist of ..... bone sandwiched between ..... bone

Correct Answer: A) Spongy/compact.

16. Which type of bone cell is found in mature bone?

Correct Answer: B) Osteocytes.

17. Which of the following statements about joints is NOT true?

Correct Answer: C) The only hinge joint is the elbow.

18. The appendicular skeleton contains ..... bones.

Correct Answer: C) 126.

19. This makes up the lower jaw

Correct Answer: B) Mandible.

20. The bone that attaches the arm to the pectoral girdle is the .....

Correct Answer: C) Humerus.