Nervous and Connective Tissues

Nervous tissue

• Tissue that is responsible for lining, covering, and glandular tissue
• Tissue responsible for protecting, supporting, and binding together other body tissues
• Tissues that contracts and shortens to produce movement
• Tissue that receives and conducts electrochemical impulses from one part of the body to another

what is also known as a nerve cell?

• neuron
• sensory nerves
• dendrites
• toes

What do neuroglia do?

• Release neurotransmitters
• Support and nourish neurons
• Release calcium to activate neurons
• Absorb nutrients from neurons

neurons have a nucleus.

• true
• false

Connective tissue is

• The tissue that protects, supports, and binds together other body tissue
• Tissue that is the lining, covering, and glandular tissue of the body
• Tissue that contracts and shortens to produce movement

Most connective tissue is well vascularized. What does that mean?

• Poor blood supply
• Good blood supply

The connective tissue has an extra cellular matrix.

• True
• False

Which of the following is NOT a type of connective tissue?

• Bone
• Cartilage
• Skin
• Blood

Which of the following is a type of cartilage?

• Hyaline cartilage 
• Fibrocartilage
• Elastic cartilage 
• All of the above

This type of cartilage forms a cushion like disk between the vertebrae.

• Fibrocartilage
• Elastic cartilage
• Hyaline cartilage