Skeletal System Quiz 141 (20 MCQs)

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1. An example of a short bone is .....

Correct Answer: C) The carpal.

2. ..... connect muscle to bone

Correct Answer: B) Tendons.

3. The joints in your knees and elbows are most similar to:

Correct Answer: D) A door hinge.

4. A herniated disk is a rupture in this type of cartilage

Correct Answer: B) Fibrous.

5. Why do adults have fewer bones than young children do?

Correct Answer: A) Bones fuse or grow together as people grow up.

6. What are the 4 nitrogen bases?

Correct Answer: B) Adenine, thymine cytosine, and guanine.

7. How many phalanges do you have?

Correct Answer: A) 5.

8. Where is cartilage, a connective tissue, located?

Correct Answer: B) In between bone and joints.

9. Which bone is responsible for protecting the brain?

Correct Answer: A) Skull.

10. The arm and legs are part of the

Correct Answer: B) Appendicular skeleton.

11. All of the following are bones of the axial skeleton EXCEPT

Correct Answer: A) Coxal bone.

12. The largest of paranasal sinuses are found in which of these facial bones?

Correct Answer: A) Cheeks.

13. What is the hard white covering of the bone?

Correct Answer: A) Periosteum.

14. Tendonitis means what?

Correct Answer: C) Inflammation of the tendons.

15. Which body system contains 206 bones, holds the body together and protects internal organs?

Correct Answer: A) Skeletal system.

16. Which kind of joint gives the most movement?

Correct Answer: C) Ball and socket.

17. In a strain, a muscle or tendon is involved.

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

18. Which of the following would be classified as in the appendicular skeleton?

Correct Answer: B) Fibula (in the leg).

19. Oxygen carrying protein found in Red blood cells

Correct Answer: B) Hemoglobin.

20. Multiple muscle fibers together are called?

Correct Answer: D) Fascicles.