Skeletal System Quiz 570 (20 MCQs)

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1. Protect the eye; connects to maxilla, temporal bone, sphenoid bone and frontal bone; knows as the cheekbone.

Correct Answer: A) Zygomatic.

2. Larger bone of lower arm

Correct Answer: A) Ulna.

3. ..... produces red blood cells, platelets, and some white blood cells.

Correct Answer: B) Red marrow.

4. What structure connects different osteons to eachother and houses blood vessels?

Correct Answer: A) Volkmann's Canal.

5. Swatting a fly off of your shoulder is what kind of movement?

Correct Answer: A) Voluntary.

6. All of these are bones that can be found in the human arm except?

Correct Answer: D) Tarsal.

7. What are the parts of a brain?

Correct Answer: A) Cerebrum, Medulla and Cerebellum.

8. How many bones make up the hands?

Correct Answer: A) 27.

9. Branch of medicine that deals with the health and repair of the skeletal sytem.

Correct Answer: C) Orthopedics.

10. The scientific name for "bone of the upper leg" is

Correct Answer: D) Femur.

11. Where do you have hinge joints?

Correct Answer: C) Elbow.

12. The hard, dense bone that forms the outer surface of bones is

Correct Answer: C) Compact bone.

13. Where white blood cells are produced

Correct Answer: A) Medullary cavity.

14. What condition in the bones makes the bones weak and is most commonly found in older people.

Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis.

15. Which of the following is responsible for bone reabsorption or breakdown and is found at injury sites.

Correct Answer: B) Osteoclasts.

16. Muscles help the face to smile.

Correct Answer: A) True.

17. The extracellular matrix of bone is made of

Correct Answer: D) All three.

18. What type of joint is your elbow?

Correct Answer: C) Hinge joint.

19. Another name for your shoulder blade.

Correct Answer: A) Scapula.

20. How many bones form the human skeleton?

Correct Answer: C) 206.