Skeletal System Quiz 578 (20 MCQs)

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1. The pelvic bone is called what

Correct Answer: A) Pubis.

2. Which bone hold your head and upper body uprigth?

Correct Answer: C) Vertebral Column.

3. What is inflammation in joints known as?

Correct Answer: C) Arthritis.

4. The bones of our legs are .....

Correct Answer: A) Long.

5. The ..... is the center of the skeleton.

Correct Answer: A) Backbone.

6. Which pair of joints works in similar ways?

Correct Answer: C) Ankles and writsts.

7. Symptoms:Shortened Limbs, average trunk/torso, enlarged head.

Correct Answer: D) Achondroplasia.

8. What are the characteristics of a short bone:

Correct Answer: D) Cube-like shape.

9. What type of bones would you find in your fingers and toes?

Correct Answer: A) Phalanges.

10. Do you have more bones or muscles in your body?

Correct Answer: B) Muscles.

11. Carnivores animals have well developed:

Correct Answer: B) Tearing teeth.

12. How many bones are there in a baby?

Correct Answer: D) 270.

13. How many vertebrae bones does the spinal column have?

Correct Answer: B) Sell.

14. What is the approximate number of bones in the human body?

Correct Answer: A) 206.

15. What is your shoulder blade called?

Correct Answer: D) Scapula.

16. What type of movement do your ball and socket joints make?

Correct Answer: B) Circular, all around.

17. How many bones does the Axial Skeleton have?

Correct Answer: B) 80.

18. Muscle attachments offer protection for vital organs like the .....

Correct Answer: D) Heart and lungs.

19. When a bone collapses, due to pressure (especially common in the vertebrae) what type of fracture occurs?

Correct Answer: A) Compression Fracture.

20. Which bone protects the spinal cord in the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: B) Vertebrae.