Connective Tissue

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

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 is NOT one of the 3 components that create connective tissue??

• Ground substance 
• Fibers
• Cells
• Basement membrane 

The matrix of our blood would be described as a(n):

• Soild
• Gel 
• Liquid
• Vascular 

Mature, less active cells in Connective tissue end in 

• blast
• clast
• cyte

Immature connective tissue cells that are actively dividing (mitotic) and help maintain the matrix end in

• blast
• clast
• cyte

Connective tissue fibers include

• proteoglycans, adhesion proteins and interstitial
• collagen, elastic and reticular
• osteoblasts, fibroblasts and hemoblasts

What tissue is this

• Bone
• Cartilage
• Blood
• Adipose

Name this tissue

• Bone
• Hyaline cartilage
• Fibrocartilage
• Adipose