Bones & Axial Skeleton

Question 1

What area of long bone is covered with cartilage?

Answer 1

Epiphyses

Question 2

What type of cartilage is articular cartilage?

Answer 2

Hyaline cartilage

Question 3

What area is made up of a thin layer of compact bone and a thick spongy bone?

Answer 3

Epiphysis

Question 4

What area is made up of a thick layer of compact bone and a very thin layer of spongy bone?

Answer 4

Diaphysis

Question 5

What structure would be present in a child instead of the epiphyseal line?

Answer 5

Epiphyseal plate

Question 6

Why does a child have an epiphyseal plate instead of an epiphyseal line?

Answer 6

Bone is still growing

Question 7

Bone cell found in the bone lacunae…

Answer 7

Osteocyte

Question 8

Vertical canal in an osteon…

Answer 8

Osteonic

Question 9

Vertical canal in an osteon…

Answer 9

Osteonic

Question 10

Cavity that contains yellow marrow in adults…

Answer 10

Medullary Cavity

Question 11

What is the bone shaft….

Answer 11

Diaphysis

Question 12

What are the spaces where the osteocytes are located?

Answer 12

Bone lacuna

Question 13

What is the horizontal canal in an osteon?

Answer 13

Interosteonic

Question 14

What is the small canal connecting bone lacunae

Answer 14

Bone canaliculus

Question 15

What is the membrane lining the medullary cavity?

Answer 15

Endosteum

Question 16

What is the membrane covering surface of the bone?

Answer 16

Periosteum

Question 17

What are the tiny bony columns in spongy bone?

Answer 17

Bone trabeculae

Question 18

Which bone (spongy, compact, or both): composed of osteons

Answer 18

Compact

Question 19

Contains osteocytes and bone lacunae: compact, spongy, both.

Answer 19

Both

Question 20

What has lamellae: compact, spongy, both.

Answer 20

Both

Question 21

What has trabeculae? compact, spongy, both.

Answer 21

Spongy bone

Question 22

What has interosteonic canals? compact, spongy, both.

Answer 22

Compact

Question 23

What is located in the epiphyses. compact, spongy, both.

Answer 23

Both

Question 24

What is located in the epiphyses. compact, spongy, both.

Answer 24

Both

Question 25

What is located in the diaphysis? compact, spongy, both.

Answer 25

Both

Question 26

What has an osteonic canal? compact, spongy, both.

Answer 26

Compact

Question 27

What has the spaces filled with red bone marrow? compact, spongy, both.

Answer 27

Spongy

Question 28

What has bone canaliculi? compact, spongy, both.

Answer 28

Both

Question 29

The hardness of bones is due to…

Answer 29

Calcium salts

Question 30

The flexibility and tensile strength of bone are due to….

Answer 30

Collagen fibres

Question 31

What type of a macromolecule (carbohydrae, lipid, protein) is collagen

Answer 31

Protein

Question 32

A bone that has the collagen removed is…

Answer 32

Inflexible

Question 33

A bone that has calcium removed is…

Answer 33

Flexible

Question 34

The two bone cells located in the periosteum and the endosteum are…

Answer 34

Osteoblasts and osteoclasts

Question 35

Which type of bone tissue significant degenerates first in osteoporosis?

Answer 35

Trabecular / spongy bone

Question 36

What is the osseous tissue that secretes collagen

Answer 36

Osteoblast

Question 37

What is the osseous tissue that secretes collagen

Answer 37

Osteoblast

Question 38

What does vitamin D assist in….

Answer 38

The absorption of calcium from the diet

Question 39

How does osteoporotic bone tissue present…

Answer 39

Holes from loss of density, not as much estrogen