Skeletal System Quiz 135 (20 MCQs)

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1. You may need to use a splint for which of the following injuries?

Correct Answer: A) Dislocation.

2. Bone on the thumb side of the forearm.

Correct Answer: A) Radius.

3. What does Hematopoiesis mean?

Correct Answer: B) Blood cell Production.

4. Cells that dissolve the bony matrix.

Correct Answer: A) Osteoclasts.

5. Q4 There are ..... muscles in our body.

Correct Answer: D) 650.

6. What category does the arm and legs bones fall?

Correct Answer: C) Long.

7. The shapes of bone are

Correct Answer: A) Long, flat, short, irregular, sesamoid, and sutural.

8. Maxilla/o

Correct Answer: A) Upper jaw.

9. An adult human being has.....bones.

Correct Answer: A) 206.

10. What part of the skeletal system is #2?

Correct Answer: B) Spinal cord.

11. This function of bone is when bones act as a reservoir for calcium and phosphate.

Correct Answer: D) Mineral storage.

12. A pulling force that helps hold bones in place

Correct Answer: C) Traction.

13. The place where 2 or more bones come together is called a .....

Correct Answer: A) Joint.

14. ..... is the kneecap

Correct Answer: C) Patella.

15. Articular cartilage

Correct Answer: A) Covers epiphysis.

16. What is the name of the outer membrane that surrounds bones?

Correct Answer: B) Periosteum.

17. Joints are connected to our bones and help us bend.

Correct Answer: A) True.

18. Which of the following can bones store for later use by the body?

Correct Answer: D) Minerals.

19. These type of bones have roughly equal widths and lengths.

Correct Answer: B) Short.

20. What do tendons attach?

Correct Answer: C) Muscle to Bone.