Skeletal System Quiz 143 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is the main difference found in the female skeleton vs the male skeleton?

Correct Answer: D) Pelvis.

2. Muscles that attached to the bone are called .....

Correct Answer: D) Skeletal muscles.

3. The hollow center of the osteon that contains blood vessels is called?

Correct Answer: D) Central canal.

4. Why bones at joints move smoothly?

Correct Answer: A) Due to lubricant.

5. What is the name of the muscle tissue that we can founf in the wall of the organs, for example the stomach?

Correct Answer: B) Smooth.

6. How many bones are in the adult skeleton?

Correct Answer: A) 206.

7. Yellow bone marrow changes over time

Correct Answer: A) Increases with age, replacing some areas of redmarrow in the long bones.

8. Soft tissue found in bones

Correct Answer: B) Marrow.

9. Name bone # 7:

Correct Answer: C) Sternum.

10. The trapezius has its insertion at the

Correct Answer: A) Clavicle and scapula.

11. THE LAST BONE OF THE VERTEBRAL COLUMN

Correct Answer: C) COCCYX.

12. If you weighed 100 pounds how much of that would be from your skeleton?

Correct Answer: A) 20 pounds or 20%.

13. Below are examples of spongy bone except:

Correct Answer: D) Arms.

14. What is the purpose of yellow bone marrow?

Correct Answer: A) To store energy and act as shock absorbers.

15. ..... are tiny canals that connect lacunae together in order to form a transport system.

Correct Answer: C) Canaliculi.

16. ..... is the only bone that can move in the skull.

Correct Answer: B) Lower jaw bone.

17. The femur is the smallest bone in the body.

Correct Answer: B) False.

18. What keeps bones from breaking?

Correct Answer: B) Compact bone.

19. What is an example of a condyloid joint?

Correct Answer: A) Wrist.

20. Which is the upper bone in arm?

Correct Answer: A) Humerus.