BIO 141: CHAPTER 6 TEST QUESTIONS WITH ACCURATE
SOLUTIONS
1) How many bones are there? -- Answer ✔✔ 206
2) What makes up the axial skeleton? The appendicular? -- Answer ✔✔ Axial: head,
neck, and trunk
Appendicular: limbs and girdles
3) How would you describe long bones? Short bones? Irregular bones? Flat bones? --
Answer ✔✔ -Long: longer than they are wide
- Short: cube shaped bones
- Flat: thin, flat bones that are slightly curved
- Irregular: do not have a defined shape
4) Why are bones organs? What tissues make up bone? -- Answer ✔✔ They consist of
2 or more types of tissues; osseous tissue, nerves, cartilage, fibrous connective
tissue, muscle cells, and epithelial cells in blood vessels make up bone
5) Which type of bone is solid and dense? -- Answer ✔✔ Compact bone
6) Which type is honeycomb-like? -- Answer ✔✔ Spongy bone
, 7) What are the spicules of spongy bone called? -- Answer ✔✔ Trabeculae
8) What fills the spaces in spongy bone? -- Answer ✔✔ Yellow or red bone marrow
9) What is the name of the outer membrane of bone? The inner membrane? -- Answer
✔✔ Outer: periosteum
Inner: endosteum
10) What is the outer membrane comprised of? The inner membrane? -- Answer ✔✔
Outer: dense irregular connective tissue
Inner: delicate connective tissue
11) The outer membrane is actually a double membrane. What are the names of the
membranes and what are they comprised of? -- Answer ✔✔ -Fibrous layer: dense
irregular connective tissue which secure by perforating fibers
-Osteogenic layer: osteoprogenitor cells, osteoblasts, and osteoclasts. Contains
nerve fibers and blood vessels that continue onto the shaft through nutrient
foramen and are the anchoring tendons and ligaments
12) What is the spongy bone inside flat, irregular and short bones called? -- Answer ✔✔
Diploe
13) What is the name of the shaft of a long bone? -- Answer ✔✔ Diaphysis
14) What is the name of the expanded ends of a long bone? -- Answer ✔✔ Epiphysis
15) What are the openings called in the periosteum where blood vessels and nerves
pass? -- Answer ✔✔ Nutrient foramen
SOLUTIONS
1) How many bones are there? -- Answer ✔✔ 206
2) What makes up the axial skeleton? The appendicular? -- Answer ✔✔ Axial: head,
neck, and trunk
Appendicular: limbs and girdles
3) How would you describe long bones? Short bones? Irregular bones? Flat bones? --
Answer ✔✔ -Long: longer than they are wide
- Short: cube shaped bones
- Flat: thin, flat bones that are slightly curved
- Irregular: do not have a defined shape
4) Why are bones organs? What tissues make up bone? -- Answer ✔✔ They consist of
2 or more types of tissues; osseous tissue, nerves, cartilage, fibrous connective
tissue, muscle cells, and epithelial cells in blood vessels make up bone
5) Which type of bone is solid and dense? -- Answer ✔✔ Compact bone
6) Which type is honeycomb-like? -- Answer ✔✔ Spongy bone
, 7) What are the spicules of spongy bone called? -- Answer ✔✔ Trabeculae
8) What fills the spaces in spongy bone? -- Answer ✔✔ Yellow or red bone marrow
9) What is the name of the outer membrane of bone? The inner membrane? -- Answer
✔✔ Outer: periosteum
Inner: endosteum
10) What is the outer membrane comprised of? The inner membrane? -- Answer ✔✔
Outer: dense irregular connective tissue
Inner: delicate connective tissue
11) The outer membrane is actually a double membrane. What are the names of the
membranes and what are they comprised of? -- Answer ✔✔ -Fibrous layer: dense
irregular connective tissue which secure by perforating fibers
-Osteogenic layer: osteoprogenitor cells, osteoblasts, and osteoclasts. Contains
nerve fibers and blood vessels that continue onto the shaft through nutrient
foramen and are the anchoring tendons and ligaments
12) What is the spongy bone inside flat, irregular and short bones called? -- Answer ✔✔
Diploe
13) What is the name of the shaft of a long bone? -- Answer ✔✔ Diaphysis
14) What is the name of the expanded ends of a long bone? -- Answer ✔✔ Epiphysis
15) What are the openings called in the periosteum where blood vessels and nerves
pass? -- Answer ✔✔ Nutrient foramen
