Skeletal System Quiz 34 (20 MCQs)

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1. What is the disorder of the skeletal system that results in having very brittle, soft bones?

Correct Answer: A) Osteoporosis.

2. Sickle Cells are shaped like .....

Correct Answer: C) Crescent.

3. In growing individuals, where would you find cartilage in the bone?

Correct Answer: A) Epiphyseal plate.

4. What type of joint is located in the knee and elbow?

Correct Answer: D) Hinge.

5. A fracture in which the bone breaks the skin

Correct Answer: C) Compound.

6. Endosteum:

Correct Answer: B) Covers inner surfaces of a long bone.

7. What are mature bone cells called?

Correct Answer: A) Osteocytes.

8. The outside layer of connective tissue that is present on long bones is:

Correct Answer: B) Periosteum.

9. The type of bone tissue that resists compressive forces, looks smooth & uniform.

Correct Answer: C) Compact bone.

10. It is also called as collarbone

Correct Answer: B) Clavicle.

11. Two bones from the elbow to the wrist are called .....

Correct Answer: A) The radius and the ulna.

12. The process of bone tissue formation (osteogenesis)

Correct Answer: D) Ossification.

13. The total number of bones in human body are:

Correct Answer: A) 206.

14. A group of organs that work together to perform a major function is an organ

Correct Answer: A) System.

15. Which of the following IS considered part of the axial skeleton

Correct Answer: D) All of these.

16. What are the Tendons?

Correct Answer: C) Attachs muscles to bones.

17. This keeps our bones from scratching against each other.

Correct Answer: B) Cartilage.

18. A process that grows out from a bone in order to allow for attachment is what classification of bone marking?

Correct Answer: B) Projection.

19. How many bones are there in adults

Correct Answer: C) 206.

20. Which muscles are under our control

Correct Answer: C) Cardiac.