Skeletal System

What are functions of the skeletal system in the human body?

• Protection

• Shape

• All of these

• Structure

Imagine you are an anatomy student and your professor asks you during a lecture, 'How many bones are there in the human body?' You remember studying that the correct number is not 210. How do you respond?

• false

• true

During a hiking trip, you slip and feel a sharp pain in your ankle. The medical guide suggests it might be an issue with the tissue that connects bones to other bones. What is this tissue called?

• Tendons

• Ligaments

• Muscles

• All are correct

These are the connective tissues that connects bones to muscles.

• CARTILAGES

• TENDONS

• LIGAMENTS

• BONES

Which one of these works with the body to help it move (more than one correct answer)

• ligaments

• joints

• muscles

• organs

joints are ?...

• places where two bones meet

• muscle

Which two types of muscles cannot be controlled?

• smooth and skeletal

• smooth and cardiac

• skeletal and cardiac

A group of similar cells that perform the same function.

• tissue
• organelle
• mass
• tendon

Which of the following is the correct order of organization in living things from most basic (simple) to most complex?

• a.  Organism, cell, tissue, organ, body system

• a.  Body system, organ, tissue, cell, organism

• a.  Cell, tissue, organ, body system, organism

• a.  Cell, organ, tissue, organ, organism, body system

The skull, vertebrae, hips, ribs, arms, and legs are major ______ of the human body.

• muscles

• bones

• nerves

• cartilage