Connective Tissues: 

-Connective tissue proper:has loose connective tissue and dense connective tissues. 

-Areolar Connective Tissue: supports and binds other tissues, holds body fluids, defends against infection, and stores nutrients as fat. 

-Adipose (fat) tissue: similar to areolar but nutrient storing ability is much stronger. Richly vascularized, indicating high metabolic activity. 

-Reticular Connective tissue: the only fibers in its matrix are reticular fibers which form a delicate network along which reticular cells are scattered. 

Dense regular Connective Tissue: variety of the dense connective tissues, which have figers as their perdominant element. Contains closely packed bundles of colagen fibers running in the same direction, parallel to the direction of the pull.

Dense irregular Connective tissue: bundles of collagen fibers are much thicker and they are arranged irregularly; they run in more than one plane

-Cartilage: stand up to both tension and compression, tough but flexible, lacks nerve fibers and is avascular. 

Hyaline cartilage: most abundant cartilage type, contains large numbers of collagen fibers but are not apparent. provides firm support with some pliability. 

Elastic Cartilage: nearly identical to hyaline cartilage, many more elastin fibers, found where strength and exceptional stretchability are needed. 

-Bone tissue: exceptional ability to support and protect body structures, provide cavities for fat storage and synthesis of blood cells. 

-Blood: most atypical tissue, does not connect things or give mechanical support, develops from mesenchyme and consists of blood cells.