Skeletal System Quiz 377 (20 MCQs)

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1. What classification of the bone does the femur belong to?

Correct Answer: A) Long.

2. There are three places where you can find cartilage. What are they?

Correct Answer: B) Nose, ears and joints.

3. How many parts is the heart divided into?

Correct Answer: B) 4.

4. What are Vertebrates?

Correct Answer: C) Animals that have bones; specifically a back bone.

5. The ends of the long bone are anatomically referred to as the:

Correct Answer: D) Epiphysis.

6. What is an example of a fixed joint?

Correct Answer: C) Skull.

7. Abnormal softening of cartilage is

Correct Answer: D) Chondromalacia.

8. A magnet can attract all metals.

Correct Answer: B) False.

9. Which of the following is the best definition of a bone?

Correct Answer: A) A hard, dense connective tissue that forms the structural elements of the skeleton.

10. ..... system of the body stores calcium

Correct Answer: C) Skeletal system.

11. ..... joints are located in the hip.

Correct Answer: C) Ball and socket.

12. Root word for joint.

Correct Answer: C) Arthr/o.

13. This skeleton includes the arms and legs

Correct Answer: A) Appendicular.

14. These are the main components of bone matrix.

Correct Answer: B) Collagen; calcium phosphate.

15. This is the upper arm bone.

Correct Answer: A) Humerus.

16. What type of movement occurs at the ankle when the toes are pointed?

Correct Answer: B) Plantar flexion.

17. It is the inner layer of the bone that contains yellowish substance which manufacture blood cells in the body.

Correct Answer: A) Bone marrow.

18. ..... ribs are attached directly to the sternum

Correct Answer: D) True.

19. All of the following are synovial joints except?

Correct Answer: A) Cartilaginous joints.

20. THERE ARE ..... BONES IN OUR BODY.

Correct Answer: B) 206.