Skin Basics Quiz

All of the following are appendages of the skin except ___________.

• Hair

• Nails

• Adipose Tissue

• Sweat Glands

This layer of skin contains no arteries or veins.

• Hypodermis

• Epidermis

• Dermis

• Adipose Tissue

Match the following vocabulary words with their definitions.

• Avascular

• Good Blood Supply

• Towards the Bone

• Adipose Tissue

• Towards the surface

• No Blood Supply

• Vascular

• Superficial

• Fat

• Deep

Your skin accounts for ____ % of your body weight.

Label each layer of skin (see the brackets) with the appropriate name.

a

b

c

Hypodermis

Epidermis

Dermis

Match the following words with their definition.

• another word for skin

• epidermis

• bottom layer of skin

• hypodermis

• middle layer of skin

• integument

• top layer of skin

• dermis

• attachment or accessory (ex: hair, nails

• appendage

Label the structures of the skin.

a

b

c

d

e

f

Hypodermis

Sweat gland

Hair

Dermis

Epidermis

oil gland

What layer of the skin contains sweat glands?

• Dermis

• Epidermis

• Hypodermis

• Subcutaneous

This layer of skin is made up of mostly fat.

• epidermis

• dermis

• hypodermis

• integument

The _______ layer makes up most of our skin.

• epidermis

• dermis

• hypodermis

• subcutaneous