Skeletal System Quiz 579 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which type of muscle tissue has no striations, is involuntary, is typically found in hollow organs, and has a slow contraction time but has great endurance.
2. A ..... fracture is most often caused when someone falls, and they catch their fall with outreached arms.
3. Flat bones are found .....
4. What is an example of a Ball-and-Socket joint?
5. Explain how the fused bones in the avian skeletal system contribute to flight.
6. Where is the strongest muscle in your body?
7. How many bones are in the arm?
8. The floating are not attached to ..... but they are attached to .....
9. It is important for us to sit or stand or do anything in a correct
10. What kind of joint is present in your elbow/knee?
11. Made up of a layer of spongy bone between two thin layers of compact bone. Thin. (Ex. skull and ribs)
12. Bones that are longer than they are wide (leg bones) are called:
13. How many cranial and facial bones are there in the skull?
14. Primary bone cell and most common type of bone cell
15. ..... bone is usually small and has many needle-like open spaces.
16. Which is not a major function (job) of the skeleton?
17. This part of the bone is porous and very light weight
18. A 76-year-old female was transported to the hospital following a fall. Upon examination, it was determined that she sustained a fracture to the head of her femur. The injury is most likely related to
19. Are bones living?
20. The middle part of a bone that produces blood cells.