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Bones and skeletal tissue

Total questions: 72

Worksheet time: 47mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What are the three types of cartilage?

(a)  

2.

Hyaline cartilage provides what?

____, _____, _____

(a)  

3.

Most abundant type of cartilage?

a)

Elastic Cartilage

b)

Hyaline cartilage

c)

Fibrocartilage

4.

Collagen fibers only

a)

Fibrocartilage

b)

Elastic cartilage

c)

Hyaline cartilage

5.

Which cartilage includes: Articular, coastal, respiratory, nasal cartilage

a)

Hyaline cartilage

b)

Elastic cartilage

c)

Fibrocartilage

6.

Contains Elastic fibers

a)

Hyaline cartilage

b)

Elastic cartilage

c)

Fibrocartilage

7.

Which cartilage includes: External ear and epiglottis

a)

Elastic cartilage

b)

Hyaline cartilage

c)

Fibrocartilage

8.

Thick collagen fibers

a)

Hyaline cartilage

b)

Elastic cartilage

c)

Fibrocartilage

9.

Which cartilage includes: menisci of knee; vertebral discs

a)

Hyaline cartilage

b)

Elastic cartilage

c)

Fibrocartilage

10.

Bones are divided into what 2 groups

(a)  

11.

The skull, vertebral column, rib cage are part of what group

a)

Axial skeleton

b)

Appendicular skeleton

12.

Long axis of body

a)

Axial skeleton

b)

Appendicular skeleton

13.

Bones of upper and lower limbs

a)

Axial skeleton

b)

Appendicular skeleton

14.

The girdles attaching limbs to skeleton are

a)

Axial skeleton

b)

Appendicular skeleton

15.

There are 4 types of bone shape what are they?

(a)  

16.

Longer than they are wide

a)

Long bone

b)

short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

irregular bone

17.

All limbs except wrist, ankle bones, and patella

a)

Long bone

b)

Short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

Irregular bone

18.

The Humerus is what type of bone?

a)

Long bone

b)

Short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

Irregular bone

19.

Cubed shaped bones (in wrist and ankle)

a)

Long bone

b)

Short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

Irregular bone

20.

Sesamoid bones (within tendons, e.g., patella)

a)

Long bone

b)

Short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

Irregular bone

21.

Vary in size and number in different individuals

a)

Long bone

b)

Short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

Irregular bone

22.

The talus is what type of bone

a)

Long bone

b)

Short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

Irregular bone

23.

Thin, flat, slightly curved

a)

Long bone

b)

Short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

Irregular bone

24.

Sternum, scapula, ribs, most skull bones

a)

Long bone

b)

Short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

Irregular bone

25.

Complicated shapes

a)

Long bone

b)

Short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

Irregular bone

26.

Vertebrae and coxal bones

a)

Long bone

b)

Short bone

c)

Flat bone

d)

Irregular bone

27.

Dense outer layer; smooth and solid

a)

Compact bone

b)

Spongy bone

28.

Honeycomb of flat pieces of bone deep to bone called trabeculae

a)

Compact bone

b)

Spongy bone

29.

bone structure: No shaft or epiphyses

a)

Short

b)

Long

c)

Irregular

d)

Flat

30.

Bone structure: Thin plates of spongy bone covered by compact bone

a)

Short

b)

Long

c)

Irregular

d)

Flat

31.

Bone structure: Bone marrow throughout spongy bone, no marrow cavity

a)

Long

b)

Short

c)

Irregular

d)

Flat

32.

Which cartilage has great tensile strength

a)

Hyaline cartilage

b)

Elastic cartilage

c)

Fibrocartilage

33.

Structure of long bone is made of up of what two components? ____,____

(a)  

34.

Long bone: in adults it contains fat

a)

Diaphysis

b)

Epiphyses

35.

Long bone: compact bone surrounds what ____ ____

(a)  

36.

long bone: Tubular shaft forms long axis

(a)  

37.

Long bone: Bone ends

a)

Diaphysis

b)

Epiphyses

38.

Articular cartilage covers articular surfaces

a)

Diaphysis

b)

Epiphyses

39.

The Epiphyses contains what line

(a)  

40.

External compact bone; internal spongy bone

a)

Diaphysis

b)

Epiphyses

41.

A?

(a)  

42.

B?

(a)  

43.

C?

a)

Compact bone

b)

Spongy bone

c)

Articular cartilage

d)

Epiphyses

44.

D?

(a)  

45.

E?

a)

Epiphyses

b)

Spongy bone

c)

Epiphyseal line

d)

Diaphysis

46.

F?

a)

Endosteum

b)

Periosteum

c)

Medullary cavity

d)

Compact bone

47.

G?

(a)  

48.

H?

a)

endosteum

b)

Medullary cavity

c)

Diaphysis

d)

Periosteum

49.

The medullary cavity is lined by what membrane?

a)

Periosteum

b)

Endosteum

c)

Compact bone

d)

Spongy bone

50.

Covers internal bone surface

(a)  

51.

Both the periosteum and endosteum contain what bone cells

a)

Osteoclasts

b)

Osteocytes

c)

Osteogenic cells

d)

Bone lining cells

52.

Membrane that has many nerve fibers and blood vessels

a)

Periosteum

b)

Endosteum

53.

Anchoring points for tendons and ligaments

a)

Periosteum

b)

Endosteum

54.

Membrane that covers external surfaces except joint surfaces

(a)  

55.

What are the 5 major cell types in bones

(a)  

56.

Mitotocally active stem cells in periosteum and endosteum

a)

Osteoclasts

b)

Osteoblasts

c)

Osteogenic cells

d)

osteocytes

57.

When stimulated differentiate into osteoblasts or bone lining cells

a)

osteoclasts

b)

Osteogenic cells

c)

Osteoblasts

d)

Osteocytes

58.

Bone forming cells (builder)

a)

Osteoclasts

b)

Osteoblasts

c)

Osteogenic cells

d)

osteocytes

59.

Secrete unmineralized bone matrix or osteoid (includes collagen and calcium binding proteins)

a)

osteoclasts

b)

Osteoblasts

c)

Osteogenic cells

d)

Osteocytes

60.

Actively mitotic

a)

Osteoblasts

b)

Osteoclasts

c)

Osteogenic cells

d)

Osteocytes

61.

Mature bone cells in lacunae

a)

Osteoblasts

b)

Osteoclasts

c)

Osteocytes

d)

Osteogenic cells

62.

Monitor and maintain bone matrix

a)

Osteoblasts

b)

Osteocytes

c)

Osteoclasts

d)

Bone lining cells

63.

Act as stress or strain sensors

a)

Osteoclasts

b)

Osteoblasts

c)

Osteocytes

d)

Bone lining cells

64.

Respond to and communicate mechanical stimuli to osteoblasts and osteoclasts so bone remodeling can occur

a)

Osteocytes

b)

Osteoclasts

c)

Osteoblasts

d)

Osteogenic cells

65.

Help maintain matrix

a)

Bone lining cells

b)

Osteoclasts

c)

Osteogenic cells

d)

Osteoblasts

66.

Flat cells on bone surfaces where bone remodeling is not going on

a)

Osteocytes

b)

Osteoblasts

c)

Osteoclasts

d)

Bone lining cells

67.

on external bone surface called periosteal cells

a)

Osteoclasts

b)

Bone lining cells

c)

osteogenic Cells

d)

Osteocytes

68.

Lining internal surfaces called endosteal cells

a)

Osteoblasts

b)

Osteoclasts

c)

Bone lining cells

d)

Osteocytes

69.

Cells that destroy bone

a)

Osteoblasts

b)

Osteogenic cells

c)

Osteoclasts

d)

Osteocytes

70.

Giant, multinucleate cells for bone resorption

a)

Osteoclasts

b)

osteoblasts

c)

Osteogenic cells

d)

Osteocytes

71.

Derived form hematopoietic stem cells that become macrophages

a)

Osteoblasts

b)

Osteoclasts

c)

Osteocytes

d)

Bone lining cells

72.

When active rest in resorption bay and have ruffled border

a)

Osteoclasts

b)

Osteoblasts

c)

Bone lining cells

d)

Osteocytes