Skeletal system Test with Verified Answers
growth - Ans -What is the word that best describes the function of the epiphyseal
plates?
skeletal system - Ans -Support, protection, movement, storage & production of RBC's
are the functions of what system?
osteoblasts - Ans -What is the name of bone building cells?
osteocytes - Ans -What is the name of mature bone cells that maintain bone and do
not produce new bone cells?
osteoclasts - Ans -What is the name of the bone cells responsible for resorption?
monocytes - Ans -Osteoclasts develop from the white blood cells called?
epiphyseal plates - Ans -What is the name of the secondary bone forming centers
that appear at about the time birth?
epiphyseal plates - Ans -What area in the long bones is new cartilage formed and
older cartilage calcifies to lengthen the long bones?
periosteum - Ans -Name the membrane covering the outer bone and the inner layer
contains osteoblasts
compact - Ans -What is the name of the hard, dense bone?
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, Diaphysis - Ans -What is the shaft of the long bone called?
epiphysis - Ans -What is the name of the irregular ends of long bones?
spongy - Ans -What is bone tissue that has more spaces than hard bone called?
spongy bone - Ans -what type of bone is found in the center of some bones?
red bone marrow - Ans -what type of tissue is found at the ends of long bones and in
the center of other bones?
red blood cells - Ans -What type of cells does the red bone marrow produce?i
yellow bone marrow - Ans -What is found in the long bone cavities?
fat - Ans -What type of tissue is yellow bone marrow?
endosteum - Ans -What is the name of the thin membrane that lines the bone cavity?
growth and repair - Ans -What is the function of the cells that the endosteum
contain?
osteon - Ans -What is the name of the subunit of compact bone that consist of bone
tissue around a central channel?
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growth - Ans -What is the word that best describes the function of the epiphyseal
plates?
skeletal system - Ans -Support, protection, movement, storage & production of RBC's
are the functions of what system?
osteoblasts - Ans -What is the name of bone building cells?
osteocytes - Ans -What is the name of mature bone cells that maintain bone and do
not produce new bone cells?
osteoclasts - Ans -What is the name of the bone cells responsible for resorption?
monocytes - Ans -Osteoclasts develop from the white blood cells called?
epiphyseal plates - Ans -What is the name of the secondary bone forming centers
that appear at about the time birth?
epiphyseal plates - Ans -What area in the long bones is new cartilage formed and
older cartilage calcifies to lengthen the long bones?
periosteum - Ans -Name the membrane covering the outer bone and the inner layer
contains osteoblasts
compact - Ans -What is the name of the hard, dense bone?
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, Diaphysis - Ans -What is the shaft of the long bone called?
epiphysis - Ans -What is the name of the irregular ends of long bones?
spongy - Ans -What is bone tissue that has more spaces than hard bone called?
spongy bone - Ans -what type of bone is found in the center of some bones?
red bone marrow - Ans -what type of tissue is found at the ends of long bones and in
the center of other bones?
red blood cells - Ans -What type of cells does the red bone marrow produce?i
yellow bone marrow - Ans -What is found in the long bone cavities?
fat - Ans -What type of tissue is yellow bone marrow?
endosteum - Ans -What is the name of the thin membrane that lines the bone cavity?
growth and repair - Ans -What is the function of the cells that the endosteum
contain?
osteon - Ans -What is the name of the subunit of compact bone that consist of bone
tissue around a central channel?
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