Skeletal System Quiz 454 (20 MCQs)

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1. What type of muscle is located in the heart?

Correct Answer: D) Cardiac.

2. Joints are classified in 2 ways:

Correct Answer: A) Structural and functional.

3. An embryo's skeleton is almost entirely made up of ....., until after the third month of development

Correct Answer: D) Cartilage.

4. How many muscles does your body have?

Correct Answer: C) 600.

5. These cells help to build bone (a)

Correct Answer: A) A osteoblasts.

6. Which bone in your arm is on the same side as your thumb? (Make your body is in anatomical position.)

Correct Answer: C) Radius.

7. Which bone tissue are filled with red marrow?

Correct Answer: B) Spongy Bone.

8. Thin filaments are made of

Correct Answer: C) Actin.

9. Movement increasing the angle between body parts (straightening)

Correct Answer: C) Extension.

10. Inflammation of bone tissue.

Correct Answer: C) Osteitis.

11. Where is the smallest bone in your body located?

Correct Answer: D) Ear.

12. This type of bone cell shaves away old bone when your bones are growing wider.

Correct Answer: C) Osteoclasts.

13. Which cells are responsible for bone formation?

Correct Answer: A) Osteoblasts.

14. Because of these holes in our skull we are able to take in air to breathe, food and water, and are able to hear things.

Correct Answer: A) True.

15. Offspring/Baby Hog

Correct Answer: B) Piglet.

16. How many bones make up the human body?

Correct Answer: B) 206.

17. 21

Correct Answer: C) Tarsals.

18. A storage area for fat cells; also contains cells that form leukocytes (white blood cells)

Correct Answer: B) Yellow marrow.

19. They help you bend your arms

Correct Answer: B) Elbows and wrists.

20. In which layer would you find the hair follicles and nerve cells?

Correct Answer: B) Dermal.