Skeletal System Quiz 681 (20 MCQs)

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1. This muscle acts as the pump for the circulatory system.

Correct Answer: A) Heart.

2. What is the common name for the "patella" ?

Correct Answer: D) Knee cap.

3. What is the process called in which bone tissue is continually being built, broken down, and rebuilt?

Correct Answer: C) Bone remodeling.

4. Your stomach is an example of ..... muscle.

Correct Answer: C) Smooth.

5. ..... are where your bones come together and what allows them to move.

Correct Answer: B) Joints.

6. Inner lining of the bones

Correct Answer: B) Endosteum.

7. The place where the 1st metacarpal and carpal meet are this type of joint

Correct Answer: D) Saddle.

8. What type of bones helps with movement?

Correct Answer: D) Appendicular.

9. Cancer that starts in the bone marrow?

Correct Answer: D) Leukemia.

10. A bundle of muscle fibers

Correct Answer: C) Fascicle.

11. What is found in the medullary cavity?

Correct Answer: B) Yellow marrow.

12. Basic unit of ALL living things

Correct Answer: A) Cell.

13. What is the name of the protein in epidermal cells that waterproofs and protects the cells?

Correct Answer: C) Keratin.

14. Skull is ..... to the top of the backbone.

Correct Answer: A) Connected.

15. Enables movement of the body and internal organs

Correct Answer: B) Muscular system.

16. ..... provides oxygen and nutrients to osseous tissue

Correct Answer: B) Haversian canal.

17. How many bones are normally present in adult skeletons?

Correct Answer: C) 206.

18. When muscles ....., they produce a pulling force and get shorter

Correct Answer: B) Contract.

19. Syndesmoses are functionally classified as .....

Correct Answer: B) Amphiarthroses.

20. A clear and slippery liquid that lubricates the joint and stops the bones rubbing together, is .....

Correct Answer: C) Synovial Fluid.