This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Science > Biology > Skeletal System – Quiz 443 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Skeletal System Quiz 443 (20 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The disease where over time, more minerals are taken out of bones than put back in A) Rickets. B) Arthritis. C) Osteoporosis. D) Osteosarcoma. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Osteoporosis. 2. How many bones are in total in the human body A) 300. B) 210. C) 206. D) 100. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) 206. 3. What type of bones protect most organs? A) Long bones. B) Short bones. C) Sesamoid bones. D) Flat bones. E) Irregular bones. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Flat bones. 4. Which joint allows bones to move back and forth in a single direction? A) Ball and Socket. B) Hinge. C) Pivot. D) None of these. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hinge. 5. What tissue is found inside the pores of spongy bone, and functions to form new blood cells? A) Compact bone. B) Spongy bone. C) Bone marrow. D) Cartilage. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bone marrow. 6. Humerus attached proximally to ..... and distally to ulna and radius. A) Harpals. B) Ribs. C) Clavicle. D) Scapula. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Scapula. 7. What is the space between bones called? A) Ligament. B) Joint. C) Muscle. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Joint. 8. Lower Jaw bone A) Tarsals. B) Humerus. C) Mandible. D) Clavicle. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Mandible. 9. What are fibrious cords that connect muscle to bone? A) Ligament. B) Long Bone. C) Tendon. D) Transverse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tendon. 10. The production within the body means what? A) When it shapes your body. B) When it helps you get rid of wastes in your body. C) When it protects the body. D) When bones produce blood cells. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) When bones produce blood cells. 11. Blood Cell formation occurs here A) Yellow marrow. B) Red marrow. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Red marrow. 12. How many bones are there in our backbone or vertebral coloumn? A) 34. B) 23. C) 43. D) 33. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) 33. 13. Which muscles work in pairs to allow movement at the elbow? A) Bicep and tricep. B) Bicep and deltoid. C) Pectoralis major and tricep. D) Trapezius and tricep. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bicep and tricep. 14. One muscle ..... and the other ..... A) Works, works harder. B) Works, relaxes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Works, relaxes. 15. What are the major structures of the skeletal system? A) Muscles, Bones, and Skin. B) Bones, Joints, and Cartilage. C) Bones, Nerves, and Blood Vessels. D) Joints, Ligaments, and Tendons. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bones, Joints, and Cartilage. 16. What is the purpose of the bones that make up your skeleton? A) Bones give your body shape, help you move, and protect soft areas of your body. B) Bones help you digest food, keep you from getting a sunburn, and keep germs from getting in your ear. C) Bones give you good looks, protects your eyes from dust, and makes you smarter. D) None of above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bones give your body shape, help you move, and protect soft areas of your body. 17. Which of the following are types of synovial joints? A) Sutures, gomphoses, and syndesmoses. B) Synchondroses and symphyses. C) Pivot, hinge, condyloid, saddle, plane, and ball & socket. D) Synarthroses, amphiarthroses, and diarthroses. E) Fibrous and cartilaginous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pivot, hinge, condyloid, saddle, plane, and ball & socket. 18. Julia, Maylani, and Sophia are playing a trivia game. They come across a question:Which system in our body is responsible for providing support and protection to our organs? A) Nervous system. B) Skeletal system. C) Muscular system. D) Digestive system. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skeletal system. 19. A total knee replacement is abbreviated as: A) THA. B) TKA. C) TKR. D) ORIF. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) TKR. 20. What do you call a soft tissue bone found in the nose, ears and joints? A) Bone marrow. B) Cartilage. C) Compact bone. D) Spongy bone. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cartilage. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesScience QuizzesSkeletal System Quiz 1Skeletal System Quiz 2Skeletal System Quiz 3Skeletal System Quiz 4Skeletal System Quiz 5Skeletal System Quiz 6Skeletal System Quiz 7Skeletal System Quiz 8Skeletal System Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books