Skeletal System Quiz 352 (20 MCQs)

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1. Where is the largest human bone located?

Correct Answer: B) Thigh.

2. Which other body system does the skeletal system work with to allow movement?

Correct Answer: C) Muscular.

3. Soft, fat storing substance found in the medullary cavity of long bones

Correct Answer: C) Yellow marrow.

4. Which is an example of a pivot joint?

Correct Answer: C) Neck.

5. Which hormone is activated when calcium levels in blood are low?

Correct Answer: C) Parathyroid hormone (PTH).

6. Ends of the long bone

Correct Answer: C) Epiphysis.

7. Which type of bone tissue is the HARDEST

Correct Answer: A) Compact Bone.

8. Which is not a bone type?

Correct Answer: D) Wide.

9. Bone-forming cells

Correct Answer: B) Osteoblast.

10. These are the largest vertebrae at the bottom of your spine.

Correct Answer: D) Lumbar.

11. What are your wrist bones called?

Correct Answer: B) Carpals.

12. Bones are also known as

Correct Answer: C) Osseous tissue.

13. The more mobility a joint has the weaker & less stable it is:

Correct Answer: A) True.

14. The inner layer of bone with the lattice structure

Correct Answer: A) Spongey bone.

15. Which type of bone is complex shaped (like the vertebrae)?

Correct Answer: B) Irregular bone.

16. Joint that only allows limited movement such as turning your head to the right and left

Correct Answer: C) Pivot.

17. Clavicul/o

Correct Answer: A) Collarbone.

18. Which of the following is not one of the tissues we have discussed in class?

Correct Answer: D) Organ.

19. Turning the hand so that the palm faces downward.

Correct Answer: A) Pronation.

20. The place where two bones meet is a

Correct Answer: B) Joint.