Skeletal System TEST Review

The adult skeletal system is composed of how many bones?

• 216
• 371
• 206
• 199

What type of bones are the vertebrae?

• long
• short
• sesamoid
• irregular

What type of bone are the ribs and frontal bone?

• short
• long
• flat
• irregular

What type of fracture happens in a twisting motion and looks diagonal?

• oblique
• spiral
• transverse
• greenstick

What type of fracture bends and splinters and happens in children mostly?

• oblique
• spiral
• transverse
• greenstick

What type of fracture occurs when the bone gets crushed into many pieces?

• comminuted
• compression
• osteoporotic
• avulsion

another name for the tailbone

• coccyx
• calcanues
• carpals
• costals

The arms and legs are part of the

• axial skeleton
• appendicular skeleton

The head, neck and trunk are in the

• axial skeleton
• appendicular skeleton

fingers and toes

• phalanges
• metacarpals
• metatarsals
• fibula