Skeletal System Quiz 695 (20 MCQs)

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1. What type of doctor deals with broken bones

Correct Answer: B) Orthopedist.

2. Bones united by cartilage with no joint cavity present

Correct Answer: A) Cartilaginous joint.

3. The hinge joint which is found in the elbow, knees, fingers and toes allow what kind of movement?

Correct Answer: B) Back and forth.

4. The Appendicular Skeleton is made up of all of the following EXCEPT!!!

Correct Answer: D) The vertebrae.

5. Classify the following bones in the human body. Femur and Humerus

Correct Answer: A) Long bone.

6. What disease is caused when bursae wear out in the joints?

Correct Answer: C) Osteoarthritis.

7. This hormone stimulates osteoblasts

Correct Answer: B) Calcitonin.

8. Muscles can only move in ..... direction.

Correct Answer: A) One.

9. The ..... system helps you move, protects your organs, gives support to the body, and makes red blood cells.

Correct Answer: A) Skeletal system.

10. Which bones form the shoulder girdle?

Correct Answer: B) Clavicles and scapulas.

11. Your skeletal system is made of your.....

Correct Answer: A) Bones.

12. ..... helps in the formation of bones nad teeth.

Correct Answer: A) Calcium.

13. What happens when babies' bones fuse together?

Correct Answer: D) Join together.

14. After a having a dislocated shoulder the doctor orders six weeks of physical therapy. This will impact which function of the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: C) Movement.

15. What connects bone to other bones?

Correct Answer: A) Ligaments.

16. Abnormal stiffness of a joint or fusion of bones at a joint.

Correct Answer: D) Ankylosis.

17. Choose long bones .....

Correct Answer: B) Humerus, femur and fibula.

18. Crooked, bent, stiff

Correct Answer: A) Ankyl/o.

19. The larger, and more medial bone in the lower leg

Correct Answer: A) Tibia.

20. Which is a cell that builds new bone?

Correct Answer: B) Osteoblast.