Deck 6: Classification of Tissues

Question 1

This tissue type is a covering and lining tissue. It also includes glands.

A) nervous
B) connective
C) muscle
D) epithelial

Answer 1

D

Question 2

This connective tissue consists of large round densely packed cells with the nucleus pushed to one side.

A) reticular
B) adipose
C) hyaline cartilage
D) blood

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Two of the four primary tissue types contain excitable cells, cells that receive stimuli and generate electrical signals. One of these is muscle tissue. Name the other.

A) nervous
B) epithelial
C) connective

Answer 3

A

Question 4

This tissue type is capable of changing its shape and stretching. It lines the urinary bladder and ureters.

A) smooth muscle
B) transitional epithelium
C) dense irregular connective tissue
D) stratified squamous epithelium

Question 5

Epithelial cells are specialized to .

A) secrete, filter, and absorb
B) receive stimuli and conduct electrical signals to all parts of the body
C) protect, support, and bind together other tissues
D) actively contract and produce many types of movements

Question 6

This connective tissue looks like strands of wavy hair. It is very strong and attaches muscles to bones.

A) dense regular
B) areolar
C) elastic tissue
D) fibrocartilage

Question 7

This epithelial tissue forms the kidney tubules, and the ducts and secretory portions of small glands.

A) simple squamous
B) pseudostratified columnar
C) simple cuboidal
D) simple columnar

Question 8

This tissue can look like the hexagonal tiles of a bathroom floor. It also forms the air sacs of the lungs.

A) simple squamous epithelium
B) adipose connective tissue
C) stratified squamous epithelium
D) hyaline cartilage

Question 9

Simple epithelia have .

A) one type of epithelial cell, arranged in a single layer
B) all three types of epithelial cells arranged in one layer
C) two types of epithelial cells, arranged in one layer
D) multiple layers of just one type of epithelial cells

Question 10

Cardiac muscle is found in the .

A) blood vessels, capillaries, and heart
B) blood vessels
C) capillaries
D) heart

Question 11

are cells that make up the brain and spinal cord and transmit electrical signals from receptor to effectors.

A) Neurons
B) Adipocytes
C) Fibroblasts
D) Neuroglia

Question 12

This primary tissue type generates electrical signals and can actively contract.

A) epithelial
B) connective
C) nervous
D) muscle

Question 13

This epithelial tissue has many cell layers. It forms the outer layer of the skin.

A) transitional
B) stratified columnar
C) stratified squamous
D) pseudostratified columnar

Question 14

Of the basic muscle types, this is the "meat" of the body, attached to the skeleton, which moves the limbs and other body parts.

A) smooth muscle
B) cardiac muscle
C) skeletal muscle

Question 15

What is not true of connective tissue?

A) Its matrix is produced by the cells within the tissue.
B) Its matrix contains fibers.
C) All connective tissues contain elastic fibers.
D) It contains both cells and noncellular, nonliving material.

Question 16

This connective tissue is made of hard calcified matrix and stores calcium and other minerals.

A) bone (osseous tissue)
B) hyaline cartilage
C) elastic cartilage
D) dense irregular

Question 17

Epithelial tissues are found _ .

A) within the brain
B) lining hollow organs
C) in the walls of hollow organs
D) attaching muscle to bone

Question 18

What is not true of epithelial cells?

A) They are richly vascularized.
B) They have a free surface.
C) They are bound together to form sheets.
D) They regenerate readily.

Question 19

This is the most abundant and widely distributed tissue type in the body.

A) muscle
B) nervous
C) epithelial
D) connective

Question 20

Squamous epithelial cells _ .

A) are thin and flat, like fish scales
B) are taller than they are wide, like columns
C) are as tall as they are wide, like cubes
D) have no nuclei

Question 21

This connective tissue is packed with parallel collagen fibers, attaches muscles to bone, and can withstand great stress when pulled in one direction.

A) dense regular
B) fibrocartilage
C) dense elastic
D) dense irregular

Question 22

This is the toughest kind of cartilage. It is found in places that receive a lot of mechanical stress.

A) elastic cartilage
B) fibrocartilage
C) hyaline cartilage

Question 23

This type of connective tissue is found under epithelia, packaging organs, and surrounding capillaries.

A) elastic cartilage
B) reticular
C) dense elastic
D) areolar

Question 24

This tough, strong, connective tissue is found directly beneath the epithelial tissue of the skin. It is packed with collagen fibers that run in all different directions.

A) dense elastic tissue
B) dense regular
C) bone (osseous tissue)
D) dense irregular

Question 25

The support cells found in nervous tissue are called .

A) neuroglia
B) neurons
C) neuralgia
D) neuromuscular

Question 26

Select the tissue that is a simple epithelium.

A) transitional
B) areolar
C) dense regular
D) pseudostratified

Question 27

This type of connective tissue is primarily composed of cells.

A) hyaline cartilage
B) bone
C) adipose
D) blood

Question 28

Which muscle tissue type is controlled voluntarily?

A) cardiac and smooth
B) skeletal
C) cardiac
D) smooth

Question 29

muscle cells consist of branched uninucleate cells with junctions called intercalated discs.

A) Connective
B) Smooth
C) Cardiac
D) Skeletal

Question 30

Exocrine glands are considered to be a type of connective tissue because _.

A) exocrine glands are epithelial tissue, not connective tissue
B) they develop from mesenchyme
C) they produce secretions, not hormones
D) their ducts connect them to a surface