Skeletal System Quiz 82 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which two types of muscle tissue are striated?

Correct Answer: D) Skeletal and cardiac.

2. Bones that do not fit into the other descriptive categories

Correct Answer: D) Irregular bones.

3. The process by which bones harden over time is referred to as:

Correct Answer: D) Ossification.

4. How is a fracture diagnosed?

Correct Answer: A) Radiograph.

5. What is located at number 17?

Correct Answer: C) Phalanges.

6. Blood is considered a tissue because it is composed of cells such as red and white blood cells working together for a particular function.

Correct Answer: A) True.

7. Where can you find an example of a ball-and-socket joint?

Correct Answer: A) Where your humerus meets your pectoral girdle.

8. This is an example what type of fracture?

Correct Answer: B) Compound.

9. Cartilage is the tough but flexible tissue that covers the ends of your bones at a joint.

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

10. Which is your collarbone?

Correct Answer: A) Clavicle.

11. Muscles that oppose one another are

Correct Answer: D) Antagonists.

12. Which word is a synonym for the word supports?

Correct Answer: A) Bears.

13. Cost/o means

Correct Answer: C) Rib.

14. The human body as an adult has

Correct Answer: C) 206 bones.

15. What does the prefix 'Osteo-' mean?

Correct Answer: B) Bones.

16. What system does the skeletal system work with to cause movement?

Correct Answer: D) Muscular.

17. Which type of fracture is the most common?

Correct Answer: A) Simple.

18. Metacarp/o

Correct Answer: B) Metacarpals.

19. Which is not a division of the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: B) Central.

20. Within the skeleton where would you be able to find a Condyloid joint?

Correct Answer: B) Wrist.