Skeletal System Quiz 409 (20 MCQs)

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1. This is the tough covering on the bone.

Correct Answer: A) Periosteum.

2. C4 What is an unborn baby's skeleton made of?

Correct Answer: A) Marrow.

3. Bone that forms from the membrane-like layers of connective tissue

Correct Answer: C) Intramembranous bone.

4. ..... of your bone is composed of spongy bone.

Correct Answer: A) 20%.

5. How may bones are there in a baby's or infants' body?

Correct Answer: C) 300.

6. What type of bone are the carpals (wrist bones)?

Correct Answer: B) Short bone.

7. What is the middle layer of skin called?

Correct Answer: A) Dermis.

8. Which of the following belong to the axial skeleton?

Correct Answer: C) Rib cage.

9. The longest bone in the body called .....

Correct Answer: D) Femur.

10. Muscle fibres that run at an angle on one side of a tendon

Correct Answer: C) Uni-pennate, not much mobility.

11. Luxury

Correct Answer: A) Slide.

12. In a bone that is no longer growing, where would one be most likely to find an osteoclast?

Correct Answer: A) Under the periosteum.

13. ..... is the tendency of an organism to maintain a constant, balanced, and stable internal environment.

Correct Answer: A) Homeostasis.

14. You were born with ..... bones.

Correct Answer: A) 300.

15. Which of the following is not an example of a short bone (square shaped, spongy bone mostly).

Correct Answer: C) Metacarpals.

16. Part of the bone has been twisted in this fracture

Correct Answer: B) Spiral.

17. Which subcategory of joint forms the skull?

Correct Answer: D) Suture.

18. Part of skelelton that supports body weight and protects organs

Correct Answer: A) Axial skeleton.

19. Which injury occurs when a bone is forced out of joint but returns without manual or surgical reduction?

Correct Answer: A) Subluxation.

20. What is the interior of a bone composed of?

Correct Answer: A) Marrow.