Connective Tissue

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

• Bone

• Cartilage

• Blood

• Adipose

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Commonly known as fat. Forms the subcutaneous layer beneath skin.

• Blood

• Bone

• Cartilage

• Adipose

This type of dense connective tissue connects bone to bone at joints 

• Tendons

• Ligaments

Which type of tissue supports and protects body structures as well as contains inorganic calcium salts?

• areolar

• hyaline cartilage

• bone

• dense irregular

These connective tissue fibers are:

• collagen fibers

• reticular fibers

• elastic fibers

• ground substance

Fill in this flowchart that illustrates some of the components that CT is built with.

c

d

e

f

b

a

extracellular matrix

specialized cells

protein fibers

collagen fibers

fibroblasts

ground substance

What type of tissue is this?

• Dense

• Hyaline Cartilage

• Vascular

• Osseous

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

• Blood

• Saliva

• Adipose

​ (a)   ​ ​ produces fibers.

• Macrophages

• Fibroblasts

• Mast cells

What type of protein fibers are present in elastic CT?

• Collagen

• Reticular fibers

• Elastic Fibers

• All three