Skeletal System Quiz 267 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the thumb called?

Correct Answer: B) Thumb.

2. Joints may be classification by

Correct Answer: B) Function.

3. What material is located inside the bone that helps make blood?

Correct Answer: D) Bone marrow.

4. What is the outer covering of a bone called? ..... bone.

Correct Answer: A) Compact.

5. Synovial joints are freely movable.

Correct Answer: A) True.

6. What inorganic materials are stored in our bones?

Correct Answer: A) Salts, Calcium, Phosphorous, potassium.

7. The intervertebral discs that cushion the spine and absorb shock are composed of fibrocartilage.

Correct Answer: A) True.

8. Syn-

Correct Answer: C) Together.

9. Outer membrane

Correct Answer: A) Where blood vessels and nerves enter and leave the bone.

10. The ends of a long bone

Correct Answer: D) Epiphysis.

11. What is hydro?

Correct Answer: A) Water.

12. Babies are born with almost 600 bones.

Correct Answer: B) False.

13. An ..... is a type of bone cell that builds bone.

Correct Answer: B) Osteoblast.

14. Which of the following is part of the Ankle?

Correct Answer: D) Talus and calcaneus.

15. Which section of the vertebral column has 5 vertebrae?

Correct Answer: C) Lumbar.

16. Which type of skeleton division is the skull, vertebrae, and thorax a part of?

Correct Answer: B) Axial.

17. What area can a ball and socket joint be found?

Correct Answer: B) Shoulder.

18. What is the definition of ligament

Correct Answer: C) Short band of flexible connective tissue.

19. Last two pairs of ribs

Correct Answer: B) Floating ribs.

20. Which connective tissue connects bones to bones?

Correct Answer: A) Ligaments.