Skeletal System Quiz 382 (20 MCQs)

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1. Which fibrous joints contain interosseous membranes?

Correct Answer: C) Connection.

2. Which organ is made mostly of muscle?

Correct Answer: A) Heart.

3. What is the purpose of bone marrow?

Correct Answer: D) Produce blood cells.

4. When does the Ossification process end?

Correct Answer: C) Age 25.

5. Presence of an epiphyseal line indicates that the bone .....

Correct Answer: C) Length is increasing.

6. A fracture in which the bone is excessively twisted; common in sports

Correct Answer: A) Spiral.

7. Who has more bones:an adult or a baby?

Correct Answer: A) Baby.

8. What is another name for a broken bone?

Correct Answer: D) Fracture.

9. How can you keep your bones healthy?

Correct Answer: A) Eat foods rich in calcium (like milk, cheese and broccoli) and exercise.

10. What does the combining form lord/o mean?

Correct Answer: B) Bent backward.

11. Which of the following is a joint that moves freely in all directions?

Correct Answer: B) Ball-and-Socket Joint.

12. The femur, kneecap, and humerous are apart of the ..... system.

Correct Answer: A) Appendicular.

13. What is the scientific name of a shoulder blade?

Correct Answer: B) Scapula.

14. Bone marrow that produces RBC

Correct Answer: B) Red bone marrow.

15. Your knee would be an example of which type of joint?

Correct Answer: A) Hinge.

16. Osteogensis is known as

Correct Answer: B) Bone development.

17. Muscles are connected to bone by

Correct Answer: A) Tendons.

18. Includes bones, ligaments, joints and cartilage

Correct Answer: D) Skeletal System.

19. The 3 Main roles of the body are .....

Correct Answer: A) Support, Protection, Movement.

20. A plate of hyaline cartilage at the junction of the diaphysis and epiphysis that provides for growth in length of a long bone.

Correct Answer: B) Epiphyseal plate.