Skeletal System Quiz 181 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is the Ball and socket joint found?

Correct Answer: A) The ball and socket joint is found in the hips and shoulders.

2. Ankle Bones

Correct Answer: B) Tarsals.

3. Most abundant cartilage. Found in the coastal cartilage and of the nose

Correct Answer: B) Hyaline Cartilage.

4. Framework, protection, produce blood cells and storage

Correct Answer: B) Skeletal.

5. .... signals the brain as to what is going on in the outside world by using your fives senses.

Correct Answer: B) Sensory nerves.

6. The muscles whose movement can be controlled are called

Correct Answer: A) Voluntary muscles.

7. What is the longest bone in the human body?

Correct Answer: C) Femur.

8. The shoulder bone is called the

Correct Answer: B) Scapula.

9. What bone is in between your ribs?

Correct Answer: C) Sternum.

10. What are the two bones in the lower arm called?

Correct Answer: A) Radius/ulna.

11. What does the skull carry?

Correct Answer: C) Brain.

12. What is another name for breastbone

Correct Answer: A) Sternum.

13. What makes bones so straong

Correct Answer: D) Calcium and phosphorous.

14. Which part of the skeletal system produces most of the body's blood cells?

Correct Answer: D) Red marrow.

15. Thin inner layer of bone covering;lines the medullary cavity

Correct Answer: B) Endosteum.

16. How do you spell the process where bones become weak and break easily?

Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis.

17. All the bones together are called .....

Correct Answer: B) Skeletal system.

18. When you stand up nice and tall your bones prevent you from falling over. Which function of the skeletal system is this?

Correct Answer: B) Support.

19. Which type of bone is inside the bone and porous?

Correct Answer: B) Spongy bone.

20. Which is NOT an example of a long bone?

Correct Answer: A) Patella.