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Spongy bone looks something like a sloppily made honeycomb covered with an outer layer of solid compact bone. The spaces in the spongy bone are filled with red bone marrow and blood vessels.
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Made of compact bone?
Compact bone is the solid, hard, outside part of the bone. It looks like ivory and is extremely strong. Holes and channels run through it, carrying blood vessels and nerves from the periosteum, the bone's membrane covering, to its inner parts.Cancellous bone, which looks like a sponge, is inside the compact bone.
How does the structure of the bone make them both strong and lightweight?
because most bone is made of spongy bone it looks like a sponge inside so it is less dense making it lighter.
What are the two types of bone?
There are two types of tissue that make up bones: Compact and Spongy
Which bone looks like the blade of an oar?
Scapula
In your ear a part that looks like a coiled tube is the?
cochlea
How does that substance inside the bone look?
An outer layer of Cortical Bone surrounds a spongy bone centre. The pockets within the sponge are filled with Bone Marrow. The inner bone looks like thick sponge filled with slime
What is the part of the bone that looks like a sponge?
Bone marrow.
Why do they call spongy bone spongy if it is not?
It looks like sponge but it's the calcium in your bone
What is your spongy bone made up of?
Spongy bone looks like what a sponge looks like. It has many openings and a thin covering of hard bone over it.
Made of compact bone?
Compact bone is the solid, hard, outside part of the bone. It looks like ivory and is extremely strong. Holes and channels run through it, carrying blood vessels and nerves from the periosteum, the bone's membrane covering, to its inner parts.Cancellous bone, which looks like a sponge, is inside the compact bone.
How does the structure of the bone make them both strong and lightweight?
because most bone is made of spongy bone it looks like a sponge inside so it is less dense making it lighter.
How doess the structure of bones make them both strong and lightweight?
Because most of the bone is made of spongy bone and it looks like a sponge in the inside so it is less dense and that is why it is light.
How does the structures of bones make the both strong and lightweight?
because most bone is made of spongy bone it looks like a sponge inside so it is less dense making it lighter.
What are the two types of bone?
There are two types of tissue that make up bones: Compact and Spongy
What kind of a bug looks like a sponge?
The caterpillar for the Dasychira Pudibunda moth resembles a sponge. This caterpillar is yellow and from a distance looks like a very small sponge.
What looks more like a plant than an animal a sponge or a hydra?
Sponge
Why SpongeBob looks square?
sponge bob looks like a square because he is supposed to look like a dish washing, house hold sponge
