Skeletal System Quiz 340 (20 MCQs)

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1. What are the needle like threads of spongy bone called?

Correct Answer: D) Beams.

2. What does your pelvic girdle do?

Correct Answer: C) Help transfer weight.

3. Type of bone cell used to build and construct bones by calcifying bone as it forms

Correct Answer: B) Osteoblast.

4. Which bone is referred to as the Shin Bone .....

Correct Answer: B) Tibia.

5. A ..... is the place where two bones connect.

Correct Answer: C) Joint.

6. Why is the skeletal system so important?

Correct Answer: C) The bones give the human body its structure, allowing it to stand up on its own. It also protects vital organs.

7. True or False:Your skeleton enables you to move

Correct Answer: A) True.

8. Which direction does a compass always point?

Correct Answer: A) North.

9. What is hard bone?

Correct Answer: D) Compact Bone.

10. Bone cells that live within lacunae are knowns as:

Correct Answer: B) Osteocytes.

11. The only freely moveable bone in the skull is the .....

Correct Answer: D) Mandible.

12. Which is NOT an example of an immovable joint?

Correct Answer: D) Where two vertebrae meet.

13. What is the function of an osteoblast?

Correct Answer: A) To form new bone tissue.

14. There are over ..... muscles present in the human body

Correct Answer: B) 600.

15. What bone has the basic irregular shape?

Correct Answer: D) The spine.

16. Which of the following is in the correct order from simplest to most complex?

Correct Answer: C) Cell, tissue, organ, system, organism.

17. Where the muscle attaches to the more stationary bone

Correct Answer: A) Origin.

18. The cavity inside the bone is called the cavity

Correct Answer: C) Medullary.

19. Bones on the palm

Correct Answer: B) Metacarpal.

20. Yellow marrow consists of ....., while red marrow consists of .....

Correct Answer: C) Fat, blood.