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Connective Tissues

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 20mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
What type of Connective Tissue are TENDONS and LIGAMENTS
a)
Dense Connective Tissue
b)
Osseous Tissue
c)
Loose connective Tissue
d)
Cartilage
2.
What type of Connective tissue is found at the ends of bones to reduce friction?
a)
Cartilage
b)
Dense connective tissue
c)
Adipose Tissue
d)
Loose connective tissue
3.
What  type of connective tissue has a hard matrix of calcium and salts?
a)
Osseous
b)
Adipose
c)
Blood
d)
Dense Connective
4.
a)
adipose
b)
dense irregular
c)
areolar
d)
nerve
5.
a)
hyaline cartilage
b)
fibrocartilage
c)
bone
d)
blood
6.
a)
smooth muscle
b)
bone
c)
nerve
d)
blood
7.
The common term for adipose tissue is
a)
Fat
b)
Blood
c)
Bone
d)
Cartilage
8.
What tissue type is this?
a)
Adipose tissue
b)
Cardiac muscle
c)
Nervous tissue
d)
Skeletal muscle
9.
Functions of connective tissue include 
a)
storing energy reserves
b)
establishing a structural framework for the body
c)
providing protection for delicate organs
d)
all of the above
10.
Ligaments attach 
a)
muscle to bone
b)
bone to bone
c)
muscle to muscle
d)
tendons to muscle
11.
15. Why does cartilage take so long to heal
a)
It is encased in bone
b)
Its cells are much larger
c)
It is avascular
d)
It is too much like rubber
12.
18. What is osseous tissue
a)
bone
b)
nails
c)
disks between vertebrae
d)
found only in the knee
13.
19. The term "hyaline" means
a)
sharp
b)
bendable
c)
glass/shiny appearance
d)
spongy
14.
21. What are lacunae
a)
cells that heal sunburn
b)
special cells that produce cartilage
c)
cavities in bone tissue
d)
cells that produce blood
15.
23. Tendons connect
a)
Muscles to bones
b)
Bones to bones
c)
Skin to bones
d)
Muscles to  muscles
16.
What type of connective tissue has a hard matrix of calcium and salts?
a)
Bone
b)
Adipose
c)
Blood
d)
Dense Connective
17.
What type of connective tissue are tendons and ligaments?
a)
Dense Fibrous Tissue
b)
Bone
c)
Loose Connective Tissue
d)
Cartilage
18.
Which of the following is NOT a type of connective tissue?
a)
Bone
b)
Cartilage
c)
Skin
d)
Blood
19.
Which is NOT one of the 3 components that make up connective tissue?
a)
Extracellular matrix 
b)
Fibers
c)
Cells
d)
Basement membrane 
20.
This type of cartilage forms a cushion-like disk between the vertebrae.
a)
Fibrocartilage
b)
Elastic cartilage
c)
Hyaline cartilage
21.
Most connective tissue is well vascularized. What does that mean?
a)
Poor blood supply
b)
Good blood supply
22.
Connective tissue is
a)
The tissue that protects, supports, and binds together other body tissue
b)
Tissue that is the lining, covering, and glandular tissue of the body
c)
Tissue that contracts and shortens to produce movement
23.
Name this tissue
a)
Bone
b)
Cartliage
c)
Blood
d)
Dense regular 
24.
This type of tissue is described as "cobwebby" and functions to cushion and protect the body organs it wraps
a)
Areolar (loose)
b)
Adipose
c)
Blood
d)
Cartilage 
25.
Name this tissue.
a)
Loose adipose
b)
Loose reticular
c)
Blood
d)
Cartilage hyaline
26.

What type of cartilage forms the skeleton of the embryo?

a)

Lymphatic Cartilage

b)

Elastic Cartilage

c)

Fibrocartilage

d)

Hyaline

27.
The connective tissue has an extra cellular matrix.
a)
True
b)
False
28.
The matrix of our blood would be described as a:
a)
Soild
b)
Gel 
c)
Liquid
d)
Vascular 
29.
The matrix of dense connective tissue has what fibers as its main matrix component?
a)
Elastic
b)
Reticular 
c)
Collagen
d)
Cotton 
30.
From most rigid to softest; these three connective tissues should be ordered
a)
bone, blood, cartilage
b)
blood, loose tissue, bone
c)
bone, cartilage, blood
d)
bone, blood, dense tissue
31.
Connective tissue fibers include
a)
proteoglycans, adhesion proteins and interstitial
b)
collagen, elastic and reticular
c)
osteoblasts, fibroblasts and hemoblasts
d)
simple squamous
32.
What is the most common fixed cell that produces the matrix in loose connective tissue? 
a)
Mast Cell
b)
Blast Cell
c)
Fibroblast
33.
This cell is a phagocyte (it eats other cells) and plays a role in immunity.
a)
Macrophage
b)
Blast Cell
c)
Mast cell
d)
Fibroblast
34.
Name this tissue
a)
Bone
b)
Hyaline cartilage
c)
Fibrocartilage
d)
Adipose
35.
Name this tissue
a)
Bone
b)
Cartilage
c)
Blood
d)
Adipose