Chapter 5 A&P Homework

What type of connective tissue is comprised of many interwoven and randomly organized collagenous fibers? Elastic connective tissue Reticular connective tissue Dense regular connective tissue Dense irregular connective tissue

Dense irregular connective tissue

____________ tissues are found covering or lining body surfaces or organs.

Epithelial

Which type of tissue covers the body surface and lines organs and cavities? Connective tissue Muscle tissue Nervous tissue Epithelial tissue

Epithelial tissue

What type of cartilage provides support and shock absorption? Fibrocartilage Hyaline cartilage Elastic cartilage

Fibrocartilage

This tissue type also forms ____________ , which produce and secrete substances.

Glands

Nervous tissue can be found mainly in the ____________ , spinal cord, and in the limbs as ____________ Nervous tissue is composed mainly of ____________ types of cells. On the cellular level, the first type of nervous cell, the ____________ , are responsible for carrying electrical signals throughout the body. The second cell type, the ____________ , support and bind the components of the nervous tissue. Due to these cells, the nervous tissue is able to coordinate, ____________ , and integrate many bodily functions.

brain; peripheral nerves two neurons neuroglia regulate

Skin is exposed to friction and has a protective function. What type of epithelial tissue is best suited to form the outer layer of the skin? transitional epithelium pseudostratified columnar epithelium simple cuboidal epithelium stratified squamous epithelium

stratified squamous epithelium

Which type of tissue provides support, protection, and fills gaps between tissues? Muscle tissue Connective tissue Nervous tissue Epithelial tissue

Connective tissue

The largest membrane of the body, the ____________ , provides a protective barrier from environmental factors such as chemicals, water, microbes, and mechanical trauma. Consisting of epithelium overlying areolar connective tissue, a ____________ lines passageways of the body such as those of the digestive, respiratory, urinary, and reproductive tracts. Consisting of simple squamous epithelium overlying a thin layer of areolar connective tissue, a ____________ lines some body cavities and produces a thin, watery secretion, called ____________ , that lubricates internal areas.

Cutaneous membrane Mucous membrane Serous membrane Serous fluid

What is the definition of a tissue? A layer of cells with different functions. A group of similar cells with a common function. A group of cells with no function. A single cell with many functions.

A group of similar cells with a common function.

This tissue always has a free or ____________ surface that is exposed to an open space.

Apical

The other side of the tissue sets on a ____________ which helps anchor the tissue to underlying structures.

Basement membrane

Epithelial tissue ____________ blood vessels. Epithelial cells ____________ divide and are ____________ packed together. Epithelial tissues are classified or named according to the ____________ of the apical cells; for example, squamous or cuboidal epithelium. The tissue is also named according to the ____________ of cell layers; for example, simple epithelium.

Lack, readily, tightly, shape, #

What type of membrane lines body cavities that do not open to the external environment, such as the thoracic cavity and abdominal cavity? Cutaneous membrane Mucous membrane Serous membrane Synovial membrane

Serous membrane

Connective tissue is notably different from epithelial tissue. Which statement describes a major difference between these tissue types? There are no cells in connective tissue. There is more space between cells in connective tissue. Epithelial tissue has large spaces containing extracellular matrix. The cells are closer together in connective tissue.

There is more space between cells in connective tissue.

What type of intercellular junction joins cells in sheet-like layers by fusing adjacent cells together?

Tight Junctions

What type of exocrine gland has small portions of its epithelial cells as its secretion? holocrine endocrine apocrine merocrine

apocrine

In nervous tissue, the cell type that carries out the main function of the tissue is the ___. neuroglia mast cell neuron goblet cell

neuron

The substance between the cells of connective tissues is called the extracellular matrix. In addition to ground substance, what else makes up the matrix? blood vessels macrophages protein fibers fibroblasts

protein fibers

What type of epithelial tissue is found lining the upper respiratory passageway and is able to move mucus? pseudostratified columnar epithelium simple cuboidal epithelium stratified squamous epithelium transitional epithelium

pseudostratified columnar epithelium