Check Your Understanding Questions - Skeletal System Flashcards
Describe the following functions of the skeletal system: protection, mineral storage, leverage
What is the difference between compact and spongey bone?
Identify one bone in the body that is classified as long.
What is the difference between the diaphysis and the epiphysis?
What is the difference between yellow and red bone marrow?
What structures are found in the central canals?
What is an osteon?
Describe the following cell types: osteogenic, osteoblast, osteoclast, osteocyte.
What stimuli cause bone remodeling?
Describe the sequence of events that takes place when bones fracture.
Describe how bone can help maintain plasma calcium homeostasis.
Describe the mechanisms behind Paget’s disease and Rickets.
What is bone mineral density? How is it measured?
Describe the effects that exercise will have on bone mineral density and why.
