Skeletal System Quiz 632 (20 MCQs)

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1. Muscle fibres that branch out in several directions form a tendon

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

2. Cartilage can be found on these parts of the skeletal system except

Correct Answer: D) Knee cap.

3. Which bone is found in the fingers and toes?

Correct Answer: A) Phalanges.

4. What is the medical term for skull?

Correct Answer: C) Skulls.

5. What would happen without the support of the skeletal system

Correct Answer: C) Our body would collapse.

6. This type of muscle moves the bone.

Correct Answer: A) Skeletal.

7. Comminuted

Correct Answer: A) C.

8. Which type of bone makes up the dense, hard outer shell?

Correct Answer: A) Compact bone.

9. What fills the hollow part of bones?

Correct Answer: D) Bone marrow.

10. Thorac

Correct Answer: D) Chest.

11. How is the thumb different from the other fingers?

Correct Answer: B) The thumb has only two joints but the other fingers have three.

12. Twisting action tears the ligaments at a joint:

Correct Answer: C) Sprain.

13. What is the shape of the kneecap or patella?

Correct Answer: D) Sesamoid.

14. Backbone protects which part of the body .....

Correct Answer: A) Spinal cord.

15. Which is a way to care for the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: D) Both A and B.

16. Immovable joints at which cranial bones attach to each other

Correct Answer: A) Sutures.

17. How many bones are there in a baby's body?

Correct Answer: A) 310.

18. Hyaline cartilage forms a blueprint of future bones

Correct Answer: A) Step 1 of endochondral ossification.

19. As part of the skeletal system, bones do all of the following except

Correct Answer: C) Make nerve cells.

20. Movement of a joint around its longitudinal axis

Correct Answer: C) Rotation.