Skeletal System Quiz 491 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which of the following is a hinge joint?

Correct Answer: B) Elbow.

2. What protects the vertebrae?

Correct Answer: A) Cartilage.

3. What are two ways to keep your bones strong and healthy?

Correct Answer: C) Eat dairy products and exercise.

4. Which phrase best describes the inorganic part of bone tissue?

Correct Answer: A) Is the primary material in bone tissue.

5. Which type of bone cells are responsible for dissolving old bone matrix?

Correct Answer: B) Osteoclasts.

6. Joints that allow slight movement

Correct Answer: B) Amphiarthroses.

7. ..... are the cells responsible for production of new bone.

Correct Answer: C) Osteoblasts.

8. How many bones baby got?

Correct Answer: C) 300.

9. It is a long, flat bone at the middle of the chest attached to cagelike curved bones.

Correct Answer: A) Sternum.

10. How many bones make up the adult human body?

Correct Answer: B) 206.

11. The sternum belongs to

Correct Answer: A) Axial skeleton.

12. Define this major function Protection

Correct Answer: D) It protects our delicate organs e.g.-the SKULL protects the BRAIN, and the RIB CAGE protects the HEART and LUNGS etc .

13. Which of these is a sign of sarcopenia?

Correct Answer: B) Frailty.

14. The thumb is an example of which type of joint?

Correct Answer: E) Saddle.

15. What is the term for the group of bones that form the ankle and heel?

Correct Answer: C) Tarsal bones.

16. The ends of bones a covered with a smooth, slippery thick layer of tissue called ..... ? This can be found in your nose and ears.

Correct Answer: B) Cartilage.

17. The lumbar and sacral vertebrae in birds are not flexible

Correct Answer: B) False.

18. ..... cushions the ends of bone and forms flexible parts like your nose and ears.

Correct Answer: A) Cartilage.

19. Pivot joints are found in

Correct Answer: A) Neck.

20. What is a mom cattle called?

Correct Answer: A) Cow.