Quiz: Integumentary System (Part 2)

Which layer of skin is considered the outermost layer of skin?

• Hypodermis

• Dermis

• Epidermis

This layer of skin helps to store energy in the form of fat, insulates the body, and provides protecting padding.

• Hypodermis

• Dermis

• Epidermis

• cutaneous

The accessory structures of the integument include the

• blood vessels, glands, muscles, and nerves

• Merkel cells, lamellated corpuscles, and tactile corpuscles

• hair, skin and nails

• hair follicles, nails, sebaceous glands, sweat glands

The two types of exocrine glands in the skin are

• merocrine and sweat glands

• sebaceous and sweat glands

• apocrine and sweat glands

• eccrine and sweat glands

The portion of the hair follicle where cell divisions occur is the

• shaft

• matrix

• root hair plexus

• cuticle

UV radiation absorbing proteins are _________________.

• protein
• keratin
• melanin
• collagen

Oil glands that are connected to hair follicles are also called?

• sudoriferous glands
• sebaceous glands
• arrector glands
• substance glands

All of the following are appendages of the skin EXCEPT?

• pineal gland
• nails
• sebaceous glands
• hair

Which of the following is a bluish cast of the skin resulting from inadequate oxygenation of the blood?

• melanin

• carotene

• hemoglobin

• cyanosis

What gives skin a reddish tint?

• Blood flow

• Carotene

• Melanin

• Keratin