Skeletal System Quiz 629 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the main purpose of the musculoskeletal system?

Correct Answer: D) Provide movement and support for the body.

2. What is commonly referred to as the "elbow bone" is actually .....

Correct Answer: B) The olecranon process of the ulna.

3. ..... can only move upwards and downwards.

Correct Answer: A) Hinge joints.

4. What type of joint connects bone with cartilage, as seen between the vertebrae in the image?

Correct Answer: A) Cartilaginous.

5. Forms red and white blood cells

Correct Answer: B) Red bone marrow.

6. The Axial Skeleton is made up 80 bones of the mid section of body. What are the 3 main regions it covers?

Correct Answer: B) Skull, Vertebrae, Thorax.

7. What is the nerve that can be injured by fracture of the shaft of the humerus?

Correct Answer: C) Radial.

8. Which joint type is non-movable in normal situations?

Correct Answer: A) Fibrous.

9. A other word for you jaw

Correct Answer: C) Mandable.

10. What additional benefit does the structure of the vertebral column provide to the body trunk?

Correct Answer: B) It makes the body trunk flexible.

11. The knob shaped portion of an arm bone that articulates with a notch on the radius and wrist bone

Correct Answer: D) Ulnar head.

12. Cartilage is flexible connective tissue found on the ends of bones to help reduce

Correct Answer: D) Friction.

13. The Jawbone is

Correct Answer: C) U-shaped.

14. The root word myel/o means what

Correct Answer: A) Bone marrow, spinal cord.

15. Deforms less

Correct Answer: B) Tendons.

16. The skeletal system works with the ..... system to aid in movement.

Correct Answer: C) Muscular.

17. What type of socket is the knee?

Correct Answer: B) Hinge.

18. Which system creates red blood cells?

Correct Answer: A) Skeletal.

19. These cells are capable of developing into osteoblast and finally osteocyte

Correct Answer: B) Osteochondrogenic and Osteogenic.

20. Cost

Correct Answer: D) Rib.