Skeletal System Quiz 580 (20 MCQs)

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1. What are the ends of long bones called?

Correct Answer: A) Epiphysis.

2. Pertaining to the region of the back that includes the lumbar vertebrae, sacrum, and nearby structures.

Correct Answer: A) Lumbosacral.

3. What hormone stimulates osteoclasts to break down bone when calcium levels are low?

Correct Answer: B) Parathyroid hormone.

4. Where are sutures found?

Correct Answer: A) In the skull.

5. The two forearm bones

Correct Answer: D) Ulna and radius.

6. A slightly mobile joint.

Correct Answer: A) Amphiarthrosis.

7. What kind of joint moves back and forth such as the elbow?

Correct Answer: D) Hinge joint.

8. A hydrostatic skeleton moves when muscles move ..... in different directions.

Correct Answer: B) Fluids.

9. What is the nerve in our back that sends messages to our body?

Correct Answer: D) Spinal cord.

10. The replacement of fetal cartilage is known as

Correct Answer: B) Ossification.

11. Where do long bones store excess adipose tissue?

Correct Answer: B) In the yellow marrow of their cavities.

12. Inward curvature of the lumbar section is known as

Correct Answer: B) Lordosis.

13. What is the biggest bone in the human body?

Correct Answer: C) Femur.

14. HOW MANY TYPES OF MOVABLE JOINTS ARE PRESENT IN OUR BODY

Correct Answer: D) FOUR.

15. The hardest, most dense part of the bone tissue is the

Correct Answer: D) Compact bone.

16. An injury that involves damage to ligaments or tendons

Correct Answer: A) Sprain.

17. During early growth development, bones are mostly composed of what?

Correct Answer: A) Hyaline cartilage.

18. The shoulder blade.

Correct Answer: C) Scapula.

19. How do your number of bones shrink as you grow up?

Correct Answer: A) Some of your bones fuse together making them one.

20. The name of one of your lower arm bones is

Correct Answer: C) Radius.