Skeletal System Quiz 300 (20 MCQs)

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1. WHICH OF THE FOLLOWING PROTECTS THE HEART AND LUNGS?

Correct Answer: C) RIB CAGE.

2. The portion of the long bone that stores yellow marrow in adults is the

Correct Answer: A) Medullary cavity.

3. How many bones make up the human skeleton?

Correct Answer: C) 206.

4. Suffix that means process or condition.

Correct Answer: A) -ation.

5. One of the hard parts that make up the skeleton in vertebrates.

Correct Answer: B) Bone.

6. The carpal is this type of bone.

Correct Answer: C) Short.

7. What do you call the fixed joints in the skull or cranium?

Correct Answer: C) Sutures.

8. Joints which allow movement around 3 or more axes

Correct Answer: B) Multiaxial.

9. This bone function involves hematopoiesis and occurs in the marrow.

Correct Answer: E) Blood cell formation.

10. False ribs have-pairs?

Correct Answer: D) 3.

11. Which bone tissue is considered the hard outer portions of bones?

Correct Answer: A) Compact Bone.

12. What is produced in the bone marrow?

Correct Answer: B) Red blood cells.

13. Growth or development

Correct Answer: C) -trophy.

14. A ..... is a bone marking that allows for the passage of vessels and nerves.

Correct Answer: C) Foramen.

15. Normally, there are about ..... bones in the human body.

Correct Answer: A) 206.

16. Cords of dense connective tissue connecting two bones together.

Correct Answer: B) Ligament.

17. Which skeleton makes up the appendages?

Correct Answer: B) Appendicular.

18. Which of the following is NOT a bone shape?

Correct Answer: C) Thick.

19. This tissue is found in some bones that makes red and white blood cells

Correct Answer: A) Red marrow.

20. Pub/o

Correct Answer: B) Pubis (anterior part of hip bone).