Skeletal System Quiz 590 (20 MCQs)

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1. Also known as the articular discs or capsules. It encloses the joint cavity of a synovial joint.

Correct Answer: B) Meniscus.

2. Responsible for repair and storage of calcium salts and other minerals

Correct Answer: B) Osteoblast.

3. What is produced inside of your bones?

Correct Answer: A) Blood cells.

4. An example of the feline skeletal system.

Correct Answer: C) Pelvis.

5. What is this useful for, Aanya, Dia, and Eshaan?

Correct Answer: D) Seeing.

6. ..... forms the main trunk of the body and is composed of the skull, spinal column, ribs, and breastbone

Correct Answer: B) Axial skeleton.

7. Healthy diet and exercise can help our bones grow.

Correct Answer: A) True.

8. How does sweat on the skin help the body?

Correct Answer: B) Sweat cools the body.

9. Inflammation of a joint

Correct Answer: C) Arthritis.

10. Break along the long axis of a bone

Correct Answer: B) Fissure fracture.

11. Which characteristic is NOT associated with spongy bone?

Correct Answer: C) Makes bones heavy.

12. Why are bones able to heal themselves after a fracture?

Correct Answer: B) Bones are alive.

13. What is the job of moveable joints?

Correct Answer: A) They allow the body to move.

14. A greenstick fracture is when .....

Correct Answer: A) The bone is splintered.

15. How many bones are in the human ear?

Correct Answer: C) 3.

16. ID # 14

Correct Answer: C) Patellar surface.

17. Groups of hollow tubes that make up osteons and are filled with tiny salts and collagen fibers to help the bone resist torsion stress

Correct Answer: A) Lamellae.

18. Which type of inflammatory condition is caused by inflammation of tendon sheaths?

Correct Answer: B) Tendinitis.

19. Which of the following is the best example of where you might find an immovable joint?

Correct Answer: D) Skull.

20. There are ..... bones in our hand & wrists

Correct Answer: A) 27.