Portage Learning A&P 1 Module 3
Questions and Answers | Latest
Version | 2025/2026 | Correct & Verified
What type of connective tissue is found at the ends of long bones?
✔✔ Hyaline cartilage
What type of bone tissue forms the dense outer surface of bones?
✔✔ Compact bone
What type of bone tissue contains trabeculae and red bone marrow?
✔✔ Spongy bone
What type of bone cell breaks down bone matrix during remodeling?
✔✔ Osteoclast
What type of bone cell builds new bone matrix?
✔✔ Osteoblast
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,What type of bone cell is trapped in the matrix and maintains bone tissue?
✔✔ Osteocyte
What type of bone marrow produces blood cells?
✔✔ Red bone marrow
What type of bone marrow stores fat?
✔✔ Yellow bone marrow
What type of bone is longer than it is wide?
✔✔ Long bone
What type of bone is roughly cube-shaped and found in the wrist?
✔✔ Short bone
What type of bone is thin and curved, such as the sternum?
✔✔ Flat bone
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, What type of bone has a complex shape like the vertebrae?
✔✔ Irregular bone
What type of canal carries blood vessels and nerves through compact bone?
✔✔ Central canal
What type of structural unit makes up compact bone?
✔✔ Osteon
What type of growth increases the length of a long bone?
✔✔ Interstitial growth
What type of growth increases the thickness of a bone?
✔✔ Appositional growth
What type of cartilage is found in the epiphyseal plate?
✔✔ Hyaline cartilage
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Questions and Answers | Latest
Version | 2025/2026 | Correct & Verified
What type of connective tissue is found at the ends of long bones?
✔✔ Hyaline cartilage
What type of bone tissue forms the dense outer surface of bones?
✔✔ Compact bone
What type of bone tissue contains trabeculae and red bone marrow?
✔✔ Spongy bone
What type of bone cell breaks down bone matrix during remodeling?
✔✔ Osteoclast
What type of bone cell builds new bone matrix?
✔✔ Osteoblast
1
,What type of bone cell is trapped in the matrix and maintains bone tissue?
✔✔ Osteocyte
What type of bone marrow produces blood cells?
✔✔ Red bone marrow
What type of bone marrow stores fat?
✔✔ Yellow bone marrow
What type of bone is longer than it is wide?
✔✔ Long bone
What type of bone is roughly cube-shaped and found in the wrist?
✔✔ Short bone
What type of bone is thin and curved, such as the sternum?
✔✔ Flat bone
2
, What type of bone has a complex shape like the vertebrae?
✔✔ Irregular bone
What type of canal carries blood vessels and nerves through compact bone?
✔✔ Central canal
What type of structural unit makes up compact bone?
✔✔ Osteon
What type of growth increases the length of a long bone?
✔✔ Interstitial growth
What type of growth increases the thickness of a bone?
✔✔ Appositional growth
What type of cartilage is found in the epiphyseal plate?
✔✔ Hyaline cartilage
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