Your Professor Asks You to Explain the Difference Between a Tendon

question 14

Multiple Choice

Your professor asks you to explain the difference between a tendon and a cartilage.Which choice will you use as your answer?

• A)Tendons secure muscles to muscles and ligaments secure bones to other bones.
• B)Both tendons and ligaments essentially have the same function,it just depends on what area of the body that is being referenced.
• C)Tendons secure muscles to bones and ligaments secure muscles to other muscles.
• D)Tendons are just enlarged ligaments.
• E)Tendons secure muscles to bones and ligaments secure bones to other bones.

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Definitions:

Dip-Slip Fault

A fault on which the relative movement is parallel to the dip of the fault.

Strike-Slip Fault

A type of fault where two blocks of the Earth's crust slide past one another horizontally, with little to no vertical movement.

Normal Fault

A type of fault where the hanging wall has moved downward relative to the footwall due to tensional forces.

Horizontal Compression

The force that acts in parallel opposition across the Earth's crust, leading to folding, faulting, or shortening of geological formations.