Connect Practice Quiz 5

Complete the following multiple choice questions that describe different connective tissue types. 1. What type of tissue supports epithelium? 2. Which of the following tissues has cells residing in lacunae? 3. Osteocytes are residents of ________ tissue. 4. Tendons and ligaments are primarily made of 5. The structure of the spleen and lymph nodes are composed mainly of

1. Loose connective tissue 2. Hyaline cartilage 3. Bone 4. Dense regular connective tissue 5. Reticular connective tissue

Match the characteristic given to one of the types of muscles. 1. Cells or fibers appear striated (banded) 2. Cells are large, long, and cylindrical, with many nuclei located at the periphery 3. Pumps the blood 4. Moves the body 5. Cells are branched and connected to one another by intercalated discs 6. Is under voluntary (conscious) control 7. Controls the amount of light entering the eye 8. Is located in the heart

1. both cardiac and skeletal muscle 2. skeletal muscle 3. cardiac muscle 4. skeletal muscle 5. cardiac muscle 6. skeletal muscle 7. smooth muscle 8. cardiac muscle

Which body membrane protects the body from water loss and harm to internal organs?

Cutaneous

Which nerve cell process receives incoming signals and transmits them to the cell body?

Dendrite

The visible part of the ear has the ability to stretch significantly, and then recoil back to its original position. Which protein fiber must be present?

Elastic

These glands have ducts and excrete their products onto the surface of the skin or into the lumen of hollow organs.

Exocrine

Nervous tissue likely provides the shape and support for the stomach. True or False

False

Which of the following is not a function of simple columnar epithelium?

Filtration

This type of muscle lacks striations and is found in the walls of most viscera such as the stomach and blood vessels.

Smooth

Which body membrane would be found lining the inside of the knee joint?

Synovial membrane

All connective tissues contain three basic components: cells, protein fibers, and ground substance. True or False

True

An organ is a structure composed of multiple types of tissues that must work together to accomplish a complex task. True or False

True

The pleural membranes completely surround each lung. True or False

True

There are a larger number of glial cells than neurons. True or False

True

A thin extracellular layer upon which an epithelium rests is called a(n)

basement membrane.

Epithelial tissue

cells can be cube or column shaped.

If a gland secretes its products through a duct to the surface of the small intestine epithelium, it must be an

exocrine gland.

The type of epithelium that would best allow rapid diffusion, osmosis, or filtration is ____________ epithelium.

simple squamous

The type of epithelial tissue that is only one cell-layer thick is called __________; the type of epithelial tissue that is two or more cell-layers thick is called _________.

simple; stratified

The layer of the pleural membrane that is attached to the surface of the lung is the

visceral pleura.