Skeletal System Quiz 117 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is a common cause of fractures?

Correct Answer: A) Large forceful impact.

2. Which bone is known as shin bone?

Correct Answer: A) Tibia.

3. A bone that is more wide than it is long and is generally cube shaped is considered a(n):

Correct Answer: D) Short bone.

4. Young female chicken, does not lay eggs

Correct Answer: C) Pullets.

5. Production of red blood cells

Correct Answer: C) Hemopoiesis.

6. The longset bone in the human

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

7. An ..... is where two or more bones meet

Correct Answer: B) Joint.

8. What type of joint is the neck?

Correct Answer: C) Pivot.

9. What is the name of the bone in the thigh?

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

10. Which of the following is TRUE on skeletal system function?

Correct Answer: A) Involved in protection of internal organs.

11. Tiny pasageways or canals that connect lacunae to each other and the central canal

Correct Answer: C) Canaliculi.

12. Which of the following is not apart of the axial skeleton?

Correct Answer: B) Humerus.

13. Which of these are involuntary muscles?

Correct Answer: A) Stomach.

14. Prefix that means "within" or "into"

Correct Answer: D) Intra-.

15. Which of the following is an example of a sesamoid bone?

Correct Answer: C) Patella.

16. In the second step of bone formation

Correct Answer: C) Hyaline cartilage is digested away leaving a cavity in newly formed bone.

17. What is #3 pointing to?

Correct Answer: A) The radial head.

18. Your skeleton..... your organs from being damaged

Correct Answer: C) Protects.

19. Is a joint a connective tissue?

Correct Answer: B) No.

20. This is the scientific name for your skull.

Correct Answer: B) Cranium.