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Skeletal System

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What are the 2 types of skeletons?
a)
spongy bone and compact bone
b)
marrow and blood vessels
c)
axial and appendicular
2.
The ability of the human body to regulate itself is called...
a)
organs
b)
tissues
c)
homeostasis
d)
organism
3.
What are the 2 types of bone tissue?
a)
spongy bone and compact bone
b)
marrow and blood vessels
c)
axial and appendicular
4.

What is the bone in yellow named?

a)

Skull (Cranium)

b)

Mandible

c)

Clavicle

d)

Scapula

5.

What is the bone in red named?

a)

Skull (Cranium)

b)

Mandible

c)

Scapula

d)

Clavicle

6.

What is the bone in red named?

a)

Skull (Mandible)

b)

Clavicle

c)

Mandible

d)

Scapula

7.

The shoulder and hip are ball and socket joints.

a)

True

b)

False

8.

Examples of a hinge joint are the elbow and knee.

a)

True

b)

False

9.
how many bones are in the skeleton?
a)
80
b)
206
c)
126
d)
260
10.
Where are blood cells made? 
a)
Yellow marrow 
b)
Red marrow
c)
Spongy Bone 
d)
Periosteum
11.
What type of joint is the elbow?
a)
Plane
b)
Hinge
c)
Pivot
d)
Ball and Socket
12.

What makes up the vertebral column?

a)

tendons

b)

ligaments

c)

vertebrae

d)

cartilage

13.

Turning the head is example of a ______________ joint.

a)

Ball and Socket Joint

b)

Hinge Joint

c)

Pivot Joint

d)

Gliding Joint

14.

Where is marrow found?

a)

In the cartilage

b)

In compact bone

c)

in spongy bone

d)

in the periosteum

15.

What is hard bone?

a)

Cartilage

b)

Tendon

c)

Spongy Bone

d)

Compact Bone

16.

Which of the following bones is NOT part of the axial skeleton?

a)

clavicle

b)

frontal

c)

vertebrae

d)

sternum

17.

This is at the end of a bone, cushions/tough

a)

cartilage

b)

tendon

c)

ligament

18.
The Axial Skeleton is made up 80 bones of the mid section of body. What are the 3 main regions it covers?
a)
Skull, Shoulder Girdle, Vertebrae
b)
Skull, Vertebrae, Thorax
c)
Skull, Vertebrae, Pelvic Girdle
d)
Skull, Vertebrae, Upper Exremeties
19.

What is the cranium?

a)

spine

b)

skull

c)

thigh

d)

arm

20.
What are the three jobs of your bones?
a)
movement, structure, joints
b)
movement, structure, protection
c)
structure, digestion and breathing
d)
movement, digestion and breathing
21.

The axial skeleton is

a)

the head and trunk

b)

the limbs

c)

the whole skeleton

d)

just the head

22.

Where does the bone get its nutrients?

a)

yellow marrow

b)

arteries

c)

red marrow

d)

calcium

23.

The bone cells that maintain bone tissue are

a)

osteocytes

b)

osteon

c)

osteoclasts

d)

osteoblasts

24.

The __________ system protects the body and gives it structure.

a)

muscular

b)

digestive

c)

skeletal

d)

circulatory

25.

What do we call the place where two bones meet?

a)

skeleton

b)

joint

c)

muscle

d)

rib