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

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

• Bone
• Cartilage
• Skin
• Blood

Which is NOT one of the 3 components that make up connective tissue?

• Extracellular matrix 
• Fibers
• Cells
• Basement membrane 

Connective tissue fibers include

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

What type of connective tissue is this?

• Bone
• Cartilage
• Blood
• Adipose

This type of connective tissue fiber forms strong, rope-like structures such as tendons and ligaments.

• Elastic
• Collagen
• Reticular
• Bone

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

• Fibrocartilage
• Elastic cartilage
• Hyaline cartilage

This tissue carries nutrients, waste, respiratory gases, and many other substances throughout the body.

• Bone
• Cartilage
• Blood
• Adipose

Which type of connective tissue cells secretes proteins into the matrix to make fibers?

• fibroblasts
• chondrocytes
• mast cells
• macrophages

This type of tissue is described as "cobwebby" and functions to cushion and protect the body organs it wraps

• Areolar
• Adipose
• Blood
• Cartilage