Skeletal System Quiz 177 (20 MCQs)

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1. The lungs and heart are protected by the rib cage.

Correct Answer: A) True.

2. What are nerves made up of?

Correct Answer: A) Neurons.

3. What works with the bones of your skeleton to make your body move?

Correct Answer: B) Muscles.

4. The following are some ways of keeping our bones healthy and strong except.

Correct Answer: B) Have too much exposure to sunlight.

5. Up to how much percent of your bones is made of minerals, including calcium.

Correct Answer: B) 70%.

6. What is the condition that causes a lateral (sideways) curvature of the spine?

Correct Answer: A) Scoliosis.

7. Attach bones to bones

Correct Answer: B) Ligaments.

8. I am the five bones of the metacarpus, located between the wrist and the fingers.

Correct Answer: B) Metacarpals.

9. Why is it important that tissues are composed of specialized cells?

Correct Answer: D) Tissues perform specialized functions, depending on their location in the body.

10. Endo

Correct Answer: A) Within/inside.

11. The spine is made up of ring-shaped bones called .....

Correct Answer: B) Vertebrae.

12. What are the bones in the ankle called?

Correct Answer: C) Tarsals.

13. Where can you find an example of a gliding joint?

Correct Answer: A) Between the short bones of the ankles.

14. What are muscles that work together in pairs called?

Correct Answer: D) Antagonist Pairs.

15. Any other angled break (other than a right angle) that is NOT across the bones axis

Correct Answer: A) Oblique.

16. Bones in the center of the body, such as the vertebrae, skull, and sternum are part of which skeleton?

Correct Answer: A) Axial.

17. What condition would you be diagnosed with if you had an S curved spine?

Correct Answer: C) Scoliosis.

18. The canal in the middle of the osteon

Correct Answer: A) Central or Haversian Canal.

19. These are the vertebrae the ribs are connected too.

Correct Answer: C) Thoracic.

20. The three major groups of joints include synarthroses, amphiarthroses, and .....

Correct Answer: A) Diarthroses.