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Skeletal System Assessment

Total questions: 56

Worksheet time: 3615secs

Name
Class
Date
1.

What bone is highlighted?

a)

Skull (Cranium)

b)

Mandible

c)

Femur

d)

Scapula

2.

What bone is highlighted?

a)

Ribs

b)

Cranium

c)

Clavicle

d)

Femur

3.

What bone is highlighted?

a)

Vertebrae

b)

Femur

c)

Cranium

d)

Ribs

4.

What bone is highlighted?

a)

Femur

b)

Cranium

c)

Ribs

d)

Skull

5.

What is the place where two bones meet?

a)

bones

b)

tendons

c)

ligament

d)

joint

6.

What is the name for the connector that attaches muscle to bone?

a)

ligament

b)

tendon

c)

joint

d)

bones

7.

What is the name for the connector that attaches bone to bone?

a)

ligament

b)

tendon

c)

joint

d)

cartilage

8.
The adult skeletal system is composed of how many bones?
a)
216
b)
371
c)
206
d)
199
9.

What do the bones make?

a)

veins

b)

cartilage

c)

red blood cells

d)

bone marrow

10.

What is the largest and strongest bone in the body?

a)

skull

b)

vertebrae

c)

femur

d)

ribs

11.

What is a flexible connective tissue that is found in your nose and ears?

a)

cartilage

b)

joints

c)

ligaments

d)

cranium

12.

What connects bones together?

a)

ligaments

b)

joints

c)

tendons

d)

cartilage

13.

What connects bones to muscles?

a)

joints

b)

cartilage

c)

tendons

d)

ligaments

14.

What fills the hollow of most bones?

a)

Bone blood

b)

Bone marrow

c)

Spongy bone

d)

Compact bone

15.

Where can you find the periosteum?

a)

On the outermost portion of your bones

b)

In the innermost portion of your bones

c)

Between the layers of spongy bone

d)

In the hollows of your bones

16.

Which type of joint gives you the largest range of motion?

a)

Pivot

b)

Ball and socket

c)

Hinge

d)

Gliding

17.

Substance found inside some long bones that makes blood cells.

a)

cartilage

b)

marrow

c)

ligament

d)

spongy bone

18.

The bones that make up the spine are called

a)

femurs

b)

vertebrae

c)

cartilage

d)

marrow

19.

What type of joint is this

a)

hinge

b)

pivot

c)

ball and socket

d)

gliding

20.

What type of joint is this

a)

gliding

b)

hinge

c)

pivot

d)

ball and socket

21.

What type of joint is this

a)

pivot

b)

gliding

c)

ball and socket

d)

fixed

22.

Identify the skeletal bone in the picture highlighted red that is the upper arm or forelimb, forming joints at the shoulder and the elbow

a)

ribs

b)

phalanges

c)

patella

d)

humerus

23.

Identify the skeletal bone in the picture highlighted blue

a)

mandible

b)

humerus

c)

cranium

d)

femur

24.

Identify the skeletal bone in the picture highlighted green

a)

fibula

b)

femur

c)

tibia

d)

phalanges

25.

identify the skeletal bone in the picture that is highlighted green and blue; also known as the breastbone

a)

clavilce

b)

Sternum

c)

Rib Cage

d)

verterbrae

26.

Where is new blood cells created?

a)

In the scapula

b)

In bone marrow, located inside the bone

c)

In the patella

d)

In bone marrow, located inside the muscle tissue

27.

The functions are the skeletal system are

a)

To support the body, protect the organs, store calcium, and produce blood cells

b)

to regulate the composition of body fluids by removing metabolic wastes and retain the balance of water, salt, and other nutrients

c)

to regulate and maintain bodily functions by producing hormones and releasing them into the blood stream

d)

to enable the diffusion of oxygen into the bloodstream and the removal of carbon dioxide from the bloodstream

28.

What bone makes up your fingers and your toes?

a)

phalanges

b)

tibia

c)

femur

d)

scapula

29.

What bone is also known as your shoulder blade?

a)

Sternum

b)

Scapula

c)

Thorax

d)

Vertebrae

30.

What bone is also known as your collar bone and links the sternum?

a)

scapula

b)

vertebrae

c)

humerus

d)

clavicle

31.

What bones are shown in green?

a)

carpals

b)

metacarpals

c)

metatarsals

d)

tarsals

32.

What bone is shown in red?

a)

carpal

b)

metacarpal

c)

metatarsal

d)

tarsal

33.

What structure is shown?

a)

mandible

b)

patella

c)

pelvis

d)

vertebrae

34.

What bone is shown in red?

a)

femur

b)

fibula

c)

patella

d)

tibia

35.

What bone is shown in red?

a)

clavicle

b)

humerus

c)

radius

d)

ulna

36.

What bone is in red?

a)

carpals

b)

humerus

c)

radius

d)

ulna

37.

What is compact bone?

a)

the soft tissue in the bone that makes blood cells

b)

the soft tissue in the bone that stores energy as fat

c)

the hard dense layer of bone

d)

the layer of bone that makes the bones lightweight

38.

The bones are hard because they are made of which of the following substances?

a)

vitamins

b)

minerals

c)

concrete

d)

sand

39.

What type of fracture breaks through the skin?

a)

Compound Fracture

b)

Simple Fracture

c)

Complete Fracture

d)

Incomplete Fracture

40.

What type of fracture does not break through the skin?

a)

Compound Fracture

b)

Simple Fracture

c)

Complete Fracture

d)

Incomplete Fracture

41.

What type of fracture breaks the bone into many parts?

a)

Compound Fracture

b)

Greenstick Fracture

c)

Complete Fracture

d)

Comminuted Fracture

42.

What condition in the bones makes the bones weak and is most commonly found in older people.

a)

Osteoporosis

b)

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)

c)

Scoliosis

d)

Craniosynostosis

43.

What is an abnormal left or right curvature of the spine?

a)

Osteoporosis

b)

Osteogenesis Imperfecta (OI)

c)

Scoliosis

d)

Craniosynostosis

44.

Skull, vertebral column, rib cage -

a)

Axial Skeleton

b)

Appendicular Skeleton

45.

Arms, legs, pelvis, fingers, toes -

a)

Axial Skeleton

b)

Appendicular Skeleton

46.
The primary mineral stored by compact bone is
a)
Calcium
b)
Selenium
c)
Zinc
d)
Magnesium
47.

Any type of break in the bone is called

a)

Bad news

b)

Spongy

c)

Fracture

d)

Painful

48.

Stretching or tearing of the ligaments from rolling your ankle:

a)

bunion

b)

sprain

c)

strain

d)

hammertoe

49.

Identify 9

a)

Medullary Cavity

b)

Compact Bone

c)

Yellow Marrow

d)

Periosteum

50.

Identify 1:

a)

Proximal Epiphysis

b)

Diaphysis

c)

Distal Epiphysis

d)

Epiphyseal Line

51.

The femur is what type of bone?

a)

Long Bone

b)

Short Bone

c)

Flat Bone

d)

Irregular Bone

e)

Sesamoid Bone

52.

The scapula is what type of bone?

a)

Long Bone

b)

Short Bone

c)

Flat Bone

d)

Irregular Bone

e)

Sesamoid Bone

53.

The vertebra is what type of bone?

a)

Long Bone

b)

Short Bone

c)

Flat Bone

d)

Irregular Bone

e)

Sesamoid Bone

54.

In what division of the skeleton do we find the pectoral girdle?

a)

Axial

b)

Appendicular

55.

What part of the long bone is referenced by the number "5"?

a)

Epiphysis

b)

Diaphysis

c)

Articular Cartilage

d)

Medullary

56.

What is the process of cartilage becoming bone called?

a)

Ossication

b)

Ossification

c)

Ossifisation

d)

Osseopatosis