Skeletal System Quiz 506 (20 MCQs)

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1. Do adults or babies have more bones?

Correct Answer: A) Babies.

2. What are osteoarthritis?

Correct Answer: D) A painful condition that affects joints and results from deterioration of the cartilage.

3. What is the name of a joint in the human body?

Correct Answer: A) Ball and Socket.

4. It connects the hand to the forearm.

Correct Answer: B) Wrist.

5. Which of the following locations is most closely associated with the clavicle?

Correct Answer: D) Shoulder girdle.

6. The ..... is the strongest, longest and heaviest bone of the human body

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

7. What kind of muscle do you move on purpose?

Correct Answer: A) Voluntary.

8. When a bone is pushed out of its joint it is called a .....

Correct Answer: D) Dislocation.

9. The Fibula is the shin bone.

Correct Answer: B) False.

10. An example of a flat bone within the human skeleton is:

Correct Answer: A) Scapula.

11. How does the skeleton help the body move?

Correct Answer: C) Muscles pull bones.

12. The ..... is also known as the shin bone.

Correct Answer: D) Tibia.

13. Which part of the human skeleton contains more bones?

Correct Answer: B) Appendicular skeleton.

14. Which is a non-vascular connective tissue?

Correct Answer: D) Cartilage.

15. Natural magnets were discovered in Greece

Correct Answer: A) True.

16. How can older adults avoid osteoporosis?

Correct Answer: B) By consuming plenty of calcium and vitamin D.

17. The tarsals is what type of bone?

Correct Answer: B) Short Bone.

18. There is no movement at all the cartilagenous joints?

Correct Answer: B) False.

19. Is the respiratory system related to the human circulatory system?

Correct Answer: A) Of.

20. Bones provide protection of internal body organs. Which of the following does NOT correctly pair a bone with the organ that it protects?

Correct Answer: C) Vertebrae, Brain.