Skeletal System Quiz 687 (20 MCQs)

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1. What type of cartilage makes up the embryonic skeleton?

Correct Answer: C) Hyaline cartilage.

2. Which is part of the Appendicular skeleton

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

3. What attaches bone to bone at the joint?

Correct Answer: B) Ligament.

4. Where in the skeleton might you find a flat bone?

Correct Answer: C) Chest.

5. This type of joint is in our neck and can rotate side to side?

Correct Answer: B) Pivot.

6. Bones are filled with a jelly like substance called .....

Correct Answer: B) Bone marrow.

7. What are the two most common joint replacements?

Correct Answer: D) Hip and knee.

8. Bones doesn't change when our body grows.

Correct Answer: B) False.

9. The spinal column is part of the ..... skeleton.

Correct Answer: A) Axial.

10. Which bone is in the lateral (thumb) side of the arm?

Correct Answer: D) Radius.

11. What do we call the bones that make up our fingers and toes?

Correct Answer: B) Phalanges.

12. What can be found in the central canal of the haversian canal system?

Correct Answer: C) Blood vessels and nerves.

13. What type of muscles form the heart?

Correct Answer: C) Cardiac.

14. The process where old bone tissue is destroyed & new bone tissue is created.

Correct Answer: B) Remodeling.

15. Which bone protects your brain?

Correct Answer: D) Skull.

16. PURPOSE OF NITRIC ACID

Correct Answer: B) DECALCIFIES BONE.

17. Which of the following is found at the tip of the nose and the ears?

Correct Answer: B) Cartilage.

18. Which of the following is a function of the axial skeleton?

Correct Answer: C) Supports trunk of body.

19. Answer for #17:

Correct Answer: C) Tibia.

20. Shaft of the bone that contains the medullary cavity

Correct Answer: B) Diaphysis.