Skeletal System Quiz 248 (20 MCQs)

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1. Name the largest organ and the largest gland in the human body respectively

Correct Answer: C) Skin, Liver.

2. What is your pelvis shaped like?

Correct Answer: B) A bowl.

3. What is the name of the largest bone in the human body?

Correct Answer: A) Femur.

4. What suffix means slipping?

Correct Answer: D) -listhesis.

5. This bone is also called the kneecap.

Correct Answer: D) Patella.

6. Which is not a type of bone shape?

Correct Answer: E) Compact.

7. The picture shows lateral view of soft spot of fetal skull. Name thebone labelled with '' A"

Correct Answer: B) Anterior fontanels.

8. Skull, vertebral column, and thorax

Correct Answer: A) Axial skeleton.

9. Muscle fibres that run at an angle on both sides of a tendon

Correct Answer: C) Bi-pennate, not much mobility.

10. Bone cells that liquefy or dissolve bone matrix and release calcium to the blood are called .....

Correct Answer: A) Osteoclasts.

11. The term for a broken bone

Correct Answer: B) Fracture.

12. Large hollow cylinder in the middle of the osteon

Correct Answer: C) Central Canal.

13. One of the Roles of the Skeletal System

Correct Answer: C) Protect the organs.

14. What type of skeleton do earthworms have?

Correct Answer: B) Hydrostatic skeleton.

15. How many muscles are there in the body?

Correct Answer: C) About 630.

16. The female ..... is also different from that of males in order to facilitate childbirth.

Correct Answer: D) Pelvis.

17. These bones with specific shapes; bones of the ear, vertebrae, and face.

Correct Answer: C) Irregular Bones.

18. It includes all the bones attached to the central framework of the human body.

Correct Answer: B) Appendicular Skeleton.

19. The joints of the cranium.

Correct Answer: A) Sutures.

20. Living bone cells are called .....

Correct Answer: B) Osteocytes.