Skeletal System Quiz 704 (20 MCQs)

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1. There are ..... in the adult human body.

Correct Answer: B) 206.

2. The most important minerals stored in bones are

Correct Answer: D) Calcium and phosphorus.

3. How many bones do we have in fingers EXCEPT our thumb?

Correct Answer: A) 3.

4. About how many bones are in the human body?

Correct Answer: C) 200.

5. Which body systems work together to allow the body to move?

Correct Answer: B) Muscular and skeletal.

6. Which of the following is NOT produced or stored inside bones?

Correct Answer: C) Melanin.

7. What is the word for the definition ilium?

Correct Answer: B) Or/about.

8. What is the smallest bone of the human body?

Correct Answer: A) Stapes.

9. Socket in pelvic bone that the thigh bone joins to the pelvis

Correct Answer: B) A dish.

10. What type of joint is your knee?

Correct Answer: D) Hinge.

11. Allows the arms to hang freely

Correct Answer: B) Clavicle.

12. Osteon can be found in which part of the bone?

Correct Answer: A) Compact bone.

13. Q6 The lowest two pairs of ribs are called:

Correct Answer: A) The floating ribs.

14. ..... is the term for the formation of cellular blood components.

Correct Answer: C) Hematopoiesis.

15. Joint replacement surgery.

Correct Answer: A) Arthroplasty.

16. Who has more bones, adults or children?

Correct Answer: B) Children.

17. The suture that is located between the occipital and parietal bones is .....

Correct Answer: D) Lambdoid.

18. The small cavities in bone where osteocytes are found are called:

Correct Answer: A) Lacunae.

19. Q-Last two pair of ribs are called .....

Correct Answer: B) Floating ribs.

20. Layer that lines the medullary cavity

Correct Answer: B) Endosteum.