Skeletal System Quiz 393 (20 MCQs)

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1. The medullary cavity contains a soft material called .....

Correct Answer: B) Yellow bone marrow.

2. What is the function of the floating ribs?

Correct Answer: B) To attach the leg bones.

3. Open Reduction

Correct Answer: B) Treating a bone surgically with pins, rods, screws, and/or wires.

4. Appendicular Skeleton does what?

Correct Answer: A) Is the part of your skeleton that can move easily. These are your arms, legs, feet, and hands.

5. Bone is formed into these thin sheets of extracellular matrix

Correct Answer: C) Lamellae.

6. Describe the composition of bone.

Correct Answer: A) 30% living tissue, 30% water and 40% minerals.

7. The radius is located in the:

Correct Answer: A) Arms.

8. Abnormal muscle tone

Correct Answer: B) Dystonia.

9. Crabs and beetles have an?

Correct Answer: B) Exoskeleton.

10. What does bone marrow produce?

Correct Answer: B) Blood.

11. Your heart is a/an ..... muscle.

Correct Answer: B) Involuntary.

12. Which portion of the skeleton forms the main trunk of the body?

Correct Answer: B) Axial Skeleton.

13. Children have lesser bones

Correct Answer: B) False.

14. Which joint is being described-Rounded head of one bone fits into round socket of another allowing movement in all axes.

Correct Answer: D) Ball and Socket.

15. Which bones involved in forming lateral longitudinal arches of the foot?

Correct Answer: D) Cuboid.

16. Which minerals are stored in bones?

Correct Answer: D) Calcium and Phosphate.

17. Connective tissue that connects bone to bone.

Correct Answer: C) Ligaments.

18. The bones cannot move by themselves

Correct Answer: A) True.

19. Bone is a dense connective tissue composed of collagen fibers and minerals.

Correct Answer: A) True.

20. Where two or more bones meet is called a(n)

Correct Answer: D) Joint.