Skeletal System Quiz 593 (20 MCQs)

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1. Turning the palm of the hand upward

Correct Answer: B) Supination.

2. What are two other words for your ankles AND wrists?

Correct Answer: C) Tarsals and Carpals.

3. Gomphoses are joints that connect

Correct Answer: B) Teeth to the skull.

4. Blood vessels and nerves supplying a bone are typically found where?

Correct Answer: A) Haversian canals.

5. The vertebral column belongs to

Correct Answer: A) The axial skeleton.

6. Protects spinal cord

Correct Answer: A) Vertebrae.

7. Covers the surfaces of bones where they come together to form joints. This tissue helps prevent bones rubbing against bones.

Correct Answer: A) Articular cartilage.

8. What connects two bones at a joint?

Correct Answer: C) Ligaments.

9. The place where two bones meet is a/an .....

Correct Answer: C) Joint.

10. It is the thick flat and strong bone that protects your head.

Correct Answer: C) Skull.

11. Hematopeiosis is the process of

Correct Answer: A) Blood cell formation.

12. When you turn your head from side to side, you are using this type of joint:

Correct Answer: C) Pivot.

13. What type of muscle is only found in your heart?

Correct Answer: A) Cardiac.

14. What type of bone is the Pelvis?

Correct Answer: A) Flat.

15. Wrists, ankles and between the vertebrae ..... joint is found.

Correct Answer: D) Gliding.

16. What are the principal bone cells that maintain daily cellular activities?

Correct Answer: A) Osteocytes.

17. ..... are specialized bone cells that build new bone tissue.

Correct Answer: C) Osteoblasts.

18. I am the skull. I enclose/protect the brain.

Correct Answer: A) Cranium.

19. Which one of these is NOT a function of the skeletal system.

Correct Answer: A) Vitamin D production.

20. ..... prevents friction between two bone

Correct Answer: D) Cartilage.