Skeletal System Quiz 361 (20 MCQs)

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1. Are our bones alive?

Correct Answer: A) Yes.

2. Another name for the shoulder blade

Correct Answer: C) Scapula.

3. What place in the world has the most hydroelectric energy

Correct Answer: A) China.

4. Freely movable joint exhibiting a joint cavity. Also called diarthrosis

Correct Answer: A) Synovial joint.

5. The proximal and distal ends of long bones. The site of hemopoiesis.

Correct Answer: B) Epiphysis.

6. Which fracture involves the protrusion of bone through the skin?

Correct Answer: D) Compound.

7. Which structure is made up of trabeculae?

Correct Answer: A) Spongy bone.

8. Bones can form in two ways, either

Correct Answer: C) Intramembranous and endochondral.

9. Which is NOT a thing of cardiac muscle?

Correct Answer: A) They get tired very quickly.

10. Your rib-cage and other bones provide ..... for vital organs.

Correct Answer: D) Protection.

11. These are the cavities containing osteocytes

Correct Answer: B) Lacunae.

12. Part of the skeleton along the axis of the body is

Correct Answer: B) Axial.

13. The light spongy bone between the eye sockets is the ..... bone.

Correct Answer: C) Ethmoid.

14. Muscles are made of .....

Correct Answer: D) Groups of cells called fibres.

15. What means "grow together?"

Correct Answer: A) Fuse.

16. Do all humans have bones?

Correct Answer: B) Yes.

17. Each lower limb contains the thigh bone, the patella, and two leg bones, the tibia and fibula.

Correct Answer: A) Femur / kneecap / shin bone.

18. Persons have different abilities in some sports. One reason is that:

Correct Answer: A) Our skeletal systems vary in size.

19. Snakes and crocodiles are?

Correct Answer: C) Reptiles.

20. The skull contains which type of joint?

Correct Answer: A) Fixed Joint.