Skeletal System Quiz 374 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which is the lowest level of organization in a multicellular organism?

Correct Answer: A) Cell.

2. What is the tissue called that connects one bone to another?

Correct Answer: D) Ligament.

3. Which organs of our body does the skull protect?

Correct Answer: D) Brain.

4. The number of bones in the appendicular skeleton

Correct Answer: B) 126.

5. Larger bone of the lower arm

Correct Answer: B) Ulna.

6. What is the function of your cardiac muscle?

Correct Answer: C) Pumps blood through the heart.

7. Allows bones to resist breaking when compressed.

Correct Answer: C) Calcium and phosphate minerals.

8. Bones are mostly made of which type of tissue?

Correct Answer: C) Connective.

9. Where are the Phalanges located?

Correct Answer: A) On your fingers and toes.

10. The bones of fingers and toes

Correct Answer: A) Phalanges.

11. It Is made up of 33 small bones called

Correct Answer: A) Vertebrae.

12. Tiny canals that connect osteocytes

Correct Answer: C) Canaliculi.

13. Creates a smooth surface for motion within the joints and protects the ends of bones.

Correct Answer: A) Cartilage.

14. Where in the body is the metacarpus found?

Correct Answer: B) Hands.

15. What are the rings that make up osteons called?

Correct Answer: C) Lamellae.

16. The type of bone tissue that is hard and dense

Correct Answer: A) Compact Bone.

17. Smallest bone in your body.

Correct Answer: D) Stapes.

18. Consists of the bones along the axis of the body, skull, vertebrae, ribs

Correct Answer: A) Axial Skeleton.

19. Which of the following bone are found in your arm?

Correct Answer: B) Radius.

20. ..... causes weak bones that do not form properly, and can be caused by a lack of calcium and vitamin D.

Correct Answer: D) Rickets.