Skeletal System Quiz 81 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the soft tissue inside a bone?

Correct Answer: C) Marrow.

2. It is the formation of blood cellular components.

Correct Answer: A) Hematopoiesis.

3. What is found on the inside of bones?

Correct Answer: A) Marrow.

4. Any place where two bones come close together is known as

Correct Answer: B) Joint.

5. The longest bone in our body

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

6. ..... are freely movable joints in which the bones are held together at the joints by ligaments

Correct Answer: E) Synovial joints.

7. What type of joint is located in your elbow?

Correct Answer: A) Hinge.

8. Osteo-

Correct Answer: B) Bone.

9. How is cartilage helpful?

Correct Answer: B) It acts as a shock absorber in joints.

10. Which are examples of Ball & Socket joints?

Correct Answer: A) Shoulder/hips.

11. What type of bone is the patella?

Correct Answer: A) Sesamoid.

12. Condition that causes brittle and porous bones

Correct Answer: D) Osteoporosis.

13. Fracture caused by diseased or weakened bone

Correct Answer: A) Pathologic.

14. What happens after you break a bone?

Correct Answer: D) Your body connects the bone together and the bone heals.

15. What joint is found in the metacarpals?

Correct Answer: C) Saddle.

16. Metacarpals

Correct Answer: A) Hand bones.

17. Define Cartilage

Correct Answer: C) Durable, flexible material found throughout your body (ears and nose for example).

18. What dose the skeletal system include?

Correct Answer: D) All of the bones and joints in the body.

19. Muscles are ..... and .....

Correct Answer: C) Soft and elastic.

20. Half of the human bones in our body are located in which two areas?

Correct Answer: B) Hands and Feet.