Skeletal System Quiz 51 (20 MCQs)

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1. This attaches muscle to bone:

Correct Answer: B) Tendons.

2. What is step 4 of bone repair?

Correct Answer: D) The fracture repair begins with a soft callus, or mass of cartilage forming at the location of the break.

3. Which type of marrow produces blood cells?

Correct Answer: B) Red.

4. Is this action voluntary or involuntary? Riding a bike

Correct Answer: A) Voluntary.

5. Adult have 260 bones

Correct Answer: B) FALSE.

6. 8 & 23

Correct Answer: D) Phalanges.

7. Sacred

Correct Answer: B) Axial.

8. Appendages

Correct Answer: B) Appendicular skeleton.

9. The system allows the body to move.

Correct Answer: C) Muscular.

10. What are the structures/organs of the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: A) Bones, cartilage, ligaments, joints.

11. Which bone in the forearm is attached to the humerus on the thumb side?

Correct Answer: C) Radius.

12. When performing dorsi flexion, which muscle is the antagonist?

Correct Answer: C) Gastrocnemius.

13. Which of the following is not a function of the skeletal system?a) Protectionb) Movementc) Digestiond) Blood cell production

Correct Answer: A) Digestion.

14. Define this major function Storage

Correct Answer: A) Minerals like calcium are stored in the bones to add strength.

15. Ossification is the process of cartilage turning into bone.

Correct Answer: A) True.

16. What are the repeating cylindrical structures which make up Compact bone called?

Correct Answer: D) Osteons.

17. A fracture that causes a bone to break incompletely and is common in children is called a:

Correct Answer: C) Greenstick Facture.

18. The bones of the wrist are ..... bones

Correct Answer: C) Short.

19. Synovial joints, like the elbow and shoulder, are classified as this type of joint

Correct Answer: C) Diarthrotic.

20. THE MINERALS STORED IN THE BONES ARE-

Correct Answer: C) BOTH A AND B.