Skeletal System Quiz 639 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the framework of the human body made of bones?

Correct Answer: C) Skeleton.

2. What is the function of the sternum?

Correct Answer: C) To protect the heart.

3. What happens to your cranium bones as you grow from a baby to an older child?

Correct Answer: C) The bones in your head grow together.

4. Which skeletal system does the leg bones belong?

Correct Answer: B) Appendicular.

5. Rib cage encloses the-

Correct Answer: B) Lungs and Heart.

6. Also called as "collarbones" that protrude at the base of your neck

Correct Answer: A) Clavicles.

7. Bone cell responsible for forming or building new bone

Correct Answer: A) Osteoblast.

8. The direction away from the midline of the body is called:

Correct Answer: B) Lateral.

9. Build new bone

Correct Answer: B) Osteoblasts.

10. What is Cerebrum?

Correct Answer: B) The largest pare of the brain that help us in thinking and learning.

11. The largest bone in the front leg is the .....

Correct Answer: B) Humerus.

12. How many bones in the body of human adults?

Correct Answer: D) 206.

13. Is the smooth, white tissue that covers the ends of bones where they come together to form joints.

Correct Answer: C) Cartilage.

14. Which of these functions is not performed by the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: A) Adigesting food.

15. What are two different types of skeletons in the human body?

Correct Answer: B) Axial & Appendicular.

16. Enoch, Jayden, and Kayleen are discussing the functions of the skeletal system. Which of the following is NOT a function they mention?

Correct Answer: D) None of the above.

17. What is the correct definition of tendons?

Correct Answer: A) Connects muscle to bone and creates movement.

18. The shaft or mid-section made up of hard bone of the femur.

Correct Answer: B) Diaphysis.

19. Which of the following are parts of the axial skeleton?

Correct Answer: D) Vertebrae.

20. The ability of the human body to regulate itself is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Homeostasis.