Quiz 5 Flashcards
Skinfold measurements calculate?
% body fat
The assumed volume of gastro-intestinal gas is ……
100mL
The epiphyseal plate is ………….
the area of growth in a long bone.
2 types of bone tissue
Compact
Spongy
Does men or women have more essential body fat
Women
[a] Law explains the ability of bone to undergo remodelling during and in response to periods of force loading.
Wolf’s law
two types of bone ossification (bone remodeling)
intramembranous and endochondral
Acceptable body fat % for male and female
15 males
27 for females
What types of bones contain epiphyses?
Long bones
he genetic condition, “brittle bones”, or Osteogenesis Imperfecta, involves partial impairment in the body’s cellular production of what substance?
Collagen
The feotal skeletal pattern (start of ossification once cartilage and connective tissue are established) is formed …….. weeks after conception?
6 - 8
The bone cells that are reponsible for producing new bone tissue are called ………
Osteoblasts
What Law, Principle or equation is underwater weighing based on?
Archimedes’ principle
Exercise can increase bone minerral deposition and density, even in pre-adolescent boys and girls. True or False
True
