Skeletal System Quiz 308 (20 MCQs)

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1. What bone is known as the kneecap?

Correct Answer: C) Patella.

2. What is almost like a rubber band that holds a bone to a bone?

Correct Answer: A) Ligament.

3. Secures the periosteum to the underlying bone.

Correct Answer: B) Perforating (Sharpey's) fibers.

4. Red Bone Marrow is located in the

Correct Answer: C) Epiphysis.

5. Muscles make up around ..... of your weight

Correct Answer: D) 1/2.

6. What group of bones make-up the area of your hips and where your femurs are attached?

Correct Answer: A) Pelvic girdle.

7. Voluntary muscles are also called striped muscles

Correct Answer: A) True.

8. The public found what they believe is a child's body. How can the body's approximate age at time of death be determined?

Correct Answer: D) By the ossification of bones and eruption of adult teeth.

9. Types of Fractures:The Fracture is completely across the bone.

Correct Answer: B) Transverse Fracture.

10. The longest bone in our body is stapes

Correct Answer: B) FALSE.

11. What classification of bone does the pelvis belong to?

Correct Answer: C) Irregular.

12. A pigment that colors the skin

Correct Answer: B) Melanin.

13. ..... are cavities containing osteocytes that are arranged in concentric rings.

Correct Answer: A) Lacunae.

14. A tough band of tissue that holds bone together at the joints are called?

Correct Answer: B) Ligaments.

15. Long, short, irregular are all?

Correct Answer: A) Types of bone.

16. Which of the following is NOT included in the Skeletal System?

Correct Answer: C) Nerves.

17. Hormone produced in the bone

Correct Answer: D) Osteocalcin.

18. What are immobile joints called?

Correct Answer: A) Sutures.

19. In long bones, spongy bone is located

Correct Answer: A) In the epiphysis.

20. Long bones start out as ..... ?

Correct Answer: A) Hyaline cartilage.