Skeletal System Quiz 132 (20 MCQs)

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1. I am short and tough bands of flexible tissue that connect two bones or pieces of cartilage and hold together joints ..... What am I?

Correct Answer: A) Ligaments.

2. Simple Oblique

Correct Answer: A) E.

3. Calcium, fat, and other nutrients are ..... in the ..... marrow of long bones.

Correct Answer: C) Stored/yellow.

4. Consists of yellow bone marrow (fat cells)

Correct Answer: A) Medullary canal.

5. The common action known as "facepalming, " or slapping your forehead with your hand, involves striking which cranial bone?

Correct Answer: A) Frontal bone.

6. What is bone destruction called?

Correct Answer: A) Resorption.

7. Which type of muscles move on its own?

Correct Answer: B) Involuntary Muscles.

8. Bone type that does not fit any other classification and has complex shape

Correct Answer: D) Irregular bone.

9. The seven bones that form the ankle.

Correct Answer: C) Tarsals.

10. There are ..... muscles in our body

Correct Answer: C) 600.

11. What type of bone tissue has trabeculae?

Correct Answer: D) Spongy bone.

12. Ball and socket joint

Correct Answer: B) Can be found in the shoulder and hip. Broad range of motion.

13. What are the 2 sections of the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: C) Axial and appendicular.

14. ..... is the wear and tear our bones and joints experience over time

Correct Answer: A) Osteoarthritis.

15. Instead of

Correct Answer: B) Fat.

16. When mashed-up food particles reach the stomach, they mix up with ..... ?

Correct Answer: B) Gastric juices.

17. This rubbery substance is found in your nose, ears, and between joints

Correct Answer: C) Cartilage.

18. Dario was playing basketball and sprained his leg. What actually happened to him?

Correct Answer: D) A ligament was stretched and twisted.

19. Skull, vertebral column, sternum and ribs are part of the .....

Correct Answer: A) Axial Skeleton.

20. The joint in which bones move back and forward.

Correct Answer: B) Hinge joint.