Skeletal System Quiz 642 (20 MCQs)

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1. What type of joint is found in your hips and shoulders?

Correct Answer: A) Ball and Socket.

2. A ..... joint allows movement in one direction only.

Correct Answer: B) Hinge.

3. How many bones does a Giraffe has in the neck?

Correct Answer: A) 7.

4. Which one is NOT a primary purpose of your Skeletal System?

Correct Answer: D) To fight against illness and disease.

5. The chestbone is called .....

Correct Answer: C) Sternum.

6. The bone that makes up the largest part of your wrist is the .....

Correct Answer: D) Radius.

7. The largest bone of the upper limb that is located between the shoulder and elbow joints is the

Correct Answer: B) Humerus.

8. Where is the thigh bone (femur)?

Correct Answer: B) Leg.

9. What kind of joint is present in your hip/shoulder?

Correct Answer: A) Ball/Socket joint.

10. Where is the longest and strongest bone in your body?

Correct Answer: B) Leg.

11. Three important bones are your

Correct Answer: C) Skull, spine and ribcage.

12. Process of bone formation before birth and during childhood:

Correct Answer: A) Ossification.

13. One of the functions of the skeletal system is to converts energy which enables the body to move.

Correct Answer: B) FALSE.

14. Thread-like tissues that hold the joints together

Correct Answer: D) Ligaments.

15. The smallest bone in your body is the

Correct Answer: C) Stirrup.

16. What are the parts of the Ears?

Correct Answer: A) Eardrum, Inner ear, Eardrum, Ear canal, Outer ear and Middle Ear.

17. Lacuna-

Correct Answer: A) Pool.

18. The process in which mineral deposits replace cartilage and change it into bone is called what?

Correct Answer: A) Ossification.

19. Inflammation of a bursa near a joint.

Correct Answer: A) Bursitis.

20. Connective tissue in spaces within boens that includes blood-forming stem and progenitor cells

Correct Answer: A) Marrow.