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Grade 8 · Biology

Biology quiz for grade 8: Skeleton and muscles

This quiz helps revise “Skeleton and muscles” in Biology for grade 8. It has 25 questions in five categories: Skeleton map, Joints and links, Muscles at work, Inside a bone, Growth and health. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 13–14
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Skeleton and muscles

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Skeleton map

  1. 100Picture for the question

    How many bones are in the standard adult human skeleton?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which division of the skeleton includes the skull, vertebral column, and rib cage?

  3. 300

    Which forearm bone lies…

    In the game
  4. 400

    What is the flat…

    In the game
  5. 500

    How many vertebrae form…

    In the game

Joints and links

  1. 100

    What smooth tissue on the bone ends in a joint reduces friction?

  2. 200

    What strong band of connective tissue connects bone to bone?

  3. 300

    What dense cord of…

    In the game
  4. 400

    What type of movable…

    In the game
  5. 500

    What freely movable type…

    In the game

Muscles at work

  1. 100

    What striated voluntary tissue contracts to pull on bones?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What front upper-arm muscle flexes the forearm at the elbow?

  3. 300

    What is a muscle…

    In the game
  4. 400

    What repeating contractile unit…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Which two proteins form…

    In the game

Inside a bone

  1. 100

    Which dense osseous tissue forms the hard outer part of most bones?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    Which porous tissue, visible inside the pictured cut bone, forms a trabecular network?

  3. 300

    Which tissue in some…

    In the game
  4. 400

    Which cells build…

    In the game
  5. 500

    Which multinucleated cells…

    In the game

Growth and health

  1. 100

    Which nutrient helps the intestine absorb calcium and supports normal mineralization?

  2. 200

    What injury occurs when the ends of bones in a joint are forced out of their normal position?

  3. 300

    What disease weakens bones…

    In the game
  4. 400

    What cartilage region near…

    In the game
  5. 500

    What continuous process replaces…

    In the game

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