Skeletal System Quiz 406 (20 MCQs)

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1. Flexing your foot; toes towards the ceiling

Correct Answer: A) Dorsiflexion.

2. The skeleton of infants is made of this material to allow for passage through the birth canal?

Correct Answer: B) Cartilage.

3. Another name for the collar bone is the .....

Correct Answer: A) Clavicle.

4. The bone at the front of the rib cage is known as the .....

Correct Answer: A) Sternum.

5. Which type of tissue supports, binds, and joins together various tissues?

Correct Answer: A) Connective.

6. Which part of the skeleton protects the heart and the lung?

Correct Answer: B) Rib cage.

7. What is the other name for the toes?

Correct Answer: C) Phalanges.

8. What is the blood clot that first forms around a fracture?

Correct Answer: A) Hematoma.

9. The bone of the lower arm that is located on the pinkie side of the hand when in anatomical position.

Correct Answer: C) Ulna.

10. Types of Fractures:Parts of the bone do not separate.

Correct Answer: C) Hairline Fracture.

11. This connective tissue connects bone to bone.

Correct Answer: C) Ligaments.

12. In the ossification process, which type of bone is formed first?

Correct Answer: A) Spongy.

13. Which of these is an example of a long bone

Correct Answer: B) Tibia.

14. An adult human skeleton has..... bones

Correct Answer: D) 206.

15. Bone formed by needlelike pieces of bone and lots of space are called

Correct Answer: A) Spongy bone.

16. Where are your gliding joints located in your body?

Correct Answer: D) My vertebrae and ribs.

17. Which is NOT one of the functions of the skeletal system

Correct Answer: C) Temperature regulation.

18. What is the longest bone called?

Correct Answer: C) Femur.

19. The bending of a joint is

Correct Answer: C) Flexion.

20. What is contained inside cancellous bone?

Correct Answer: A) Red Marrow.