Skeletal System Quiz 589 (20 MCQs)

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1. A scoliosis patient's spine is often shaped like:

Correct Answer: A) Letter S.

2. What is NOT a function of bone tissue

Correct Answer: A) Moving the body.

3. What connects a muscle to a bone?

Correct Answer: C) Ligament.

4. Give bones their tensile strength.

Correct Answer: B) Collagens and other proteins.

5. Which of the following is a joint found in the human body?

Correct Answer: D) Knee.

6. This cell would get stimulated by PTH when blood calcium levels are too low.

Correct Answer: B) Osteoclast.

7. This bone disease makes the legs look like letter O or X.This bone disease can be prevented by .....

Correct Answer: D) Consume food containing vitamin D.

8. Detectives use bones to determine

Correct Answer: D) All of these choices.

9. Osteoclasts break bone down.

Correct Answer: A) True.

10. Large, multinucleated cells that can dissolve the bony matrix are called:

Correct Answer: C) Osteoclasts.

11. OUTER COVERING OF BONE THAT COVERS DIAPHYSIS AND IS LOCATION WHERE MUSCLES ATTACH

Correct Answer: D) PERIOSTEUM.

12. Which set of bones below belongs to the axial skeleton?

Correct Answer: D) Skull, ribs, vertebrae.

13. How many bones are there in the axial skeleton?

Correct Answer: A) 80.

14. Bones in your arms and legs are short and stubby.

Correct Answer: B) False.

15. Loss of bone tissue?

Correct Answer: B) Osteoporosis.

16. A bone that has "popped" out of place is what type of injury?

Correct Answer: A) Dislocation.

17. Connect bones to other bones like tape

Correct Answer: D) Ligaments.

18. The ..... protects the heart

Correct Answer: B) Ribcage.

19. The shortening of a muscle during contraction

Correct Answer: B) Concentric Contraction.

20. Cell responsible for synthesizing new bones.

Correct Answer: C) Osteoblasts.