3.2 Quiz Muscular and Skeletal System

The skeletal and muscular systems work together to allow the body to move.

• True

• False

Besides providing support, protection, and allowing movement, the skeletal system...

• helps to digest food.

• absorbs water into the blood stream.

• makes blood cells.

• produces the majority of body heat.

Bones are mostly made of which type of tissue?

• muscle

• nervous

• connective

• epithelial

What is the cushion between bones?

• cartilage

• calcium

• ligament

• marrow

There are four types of joints that we talked about in class. They are pivot, gliding...

• scrubbing, and spinning.

• connective, and cartilage.

• compact, and spongy.

• hinge, and ball-and-socket.

Tendons connect...

• muscle to muscle.

• muscle to bone.

• bone to bone.

What is NOT a type of muscle tissue?

• skeletal

• smooth

• cardiac

• tendon

What type of muscle lines the digestive system and blood vessels?

• smooth

• cardiac

• skeletal

What is the connective tissue that links bone to bone?

• tendon

• joint

• ligament

• cartilage

The skeletal muscles work in pairs (i.e. when one tightens, the other relaxes).

• true

• false