Skeletal System Quiz 259 (20 MCQs)

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1. An abnormal lateral curvature of the spine.

Correct Answer: A) Scoliosis.

2. What is not a job of your skeletal system?

Correct Answer: D) Filter out poisons.

3. What part of the skeletal system is where two bones meet?

Correct Answer: A) Joint.

4. This bone is not attached to any other bone. It plays a vital role in speech, chewing, and swallowing.

Correct Answer: A) Hyoid.

5. Around how many ligaments are there in a body?

Correct Answer: C) 900.

6. Which of the following means "a group of related things or parts that work together as a whole?"

Correct Answer: D) System.

7. The skeleton system has ..... bones.

Correct Answer: E) 206.

8. What are the bones in the chest that protect your heart and lungs?

Correct Answer: A) Ribs.

9. How many bones are there in newly born babies?

Correct Answer: C) 300.

10. Which type of joint makes up most joints in the body?

Correct Answer: A) Synovial.

11. What is the name used for the frog to hop and swim?

Correct Answer: B) Hind Leg.

12. Children have more bones than adults

Correct Answer: A) True.

13. Fully mobile joint ..... like your shoulder

Correct Answer: B) Diarthroses.

14. A longest bone in upper leg is called

Correct Answer: B) Femur.

15. The vertebrae are .....

Correct Answer: D) Irregular Bones.

16. This is a disorder where the bone reabsorption is faster than bone deposit.

Correct Answer: B) Osteoporosis.

17. The elbow and knee are examples of .....

Correct Answer: B) Hinge.

18. The ribs, sternum and scapulae are all what type of bone?

Correct Answer: D) Flat.

19. Muscles that are not under our control

Correct Answer: A) Involuntary muscles.

20. Which of the following sutures bind 2 parietal with occipital bone?

Correct Answer: D) Lambdoid suture.