Skeletal System Quiz 82 (20 MCQs)

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1. How is a fracture diagnosed?

Correct Answer: A) Radiograph.

2. What is located at number 17?

Correct Answer: C) Phalanges.

3. Blood is considered a tissue because it is composed of cells such as red and white blood cells working together for a particular function.

Correct Answer: A) True.

4. Where can you find an example of a ball-and-socket joint?

Correct Answer: A) Where your humerus meets your pectoral girdle.

5. This is an example what type of fracture?

Correct Answer: B) Compound.

6. Cartilage is the tough but flexible tissue that covers the ends of your bones at a joint.

Correct Answer: A) TRUE.

7. Which is your collarbone?

Correct Answer: A) Clavicle.

8. Muscles that oppose one another are

Correct Answer: D) Antagonists.

9. Which word is a synonym for the word supports?

Correct Answer: A) Bears.

10. Cost/o means

Correct Answer: C) Rib.

11. The human body as an adult has

Correct Answer: C) 206 bones.

12. What does the prefix 'Osteo-' mean?

Correct Answer: B) Bones.

13. What system does the skeletal system work with to cause movement?

Correct Answer: D) Muscular.

14. Which type of fracture is the most common?

Correct Answer: A) Simple.

15. Metacarp/o

Correct Answer: B) Metacarpals.

16. Which is not a division of the skeletal system?

Correct Answer: B) Central.

17. Within the skeleton where would you be able to find a Condyloid joint?

Correct Answer: B) Wrist.

18. The skeletal system maintains homeostasis by

Correct Answer: B) Maintaining calcium levels in the blood.

19. What synovial joint would you find where the femur and pelvis articulate?

Correct Answer: D) Hip.

20. Which bone is an example of a hinge joint?

Correct Answer: A) Elbow.