AjBjCj-Integumentary System (Skin and Nails) Quiz

What do you call the natural oil in the skin?

• Collagen

• Sebum

• Keratin

• Melanin

Each hair on your body grows out of a tiny tube in the skin called ____?

• Pore

• Follicle

• Sebaceous gland

• Hair shaft

What gives the skin color?

• Hemoglobin

• Keratin

• Melanin

• Sebum

What is the outermost layer of the skin?

• Dermis

• Epidermis

• Subcutaneous layer

• Hypodermis

What is the body’s largest organ?

• Heart

• Liver

• Skin

• Lungs

When a nail curves down into the skin as it grows, causing pain and infection, it is called __?

• Ingrown nail

• Hangnail

• Paronychia

• Onychomycosis

What is it called when a loose strip of dead skin hangs from the edge of your fingernails?

• Hangnail

• Cuticle

• Ingrown nail

• Nail bed

Where does the nail meet the skin?

• Nail plate

• Cuticle

• Nail root

• Lunula

Nails start growing from the __?

• Nail bed

• Nail root

• Cuticle

• Lunula

On your nail, what is the pale half-circle part above the cuticle?

• Nail matrix

• Lunula

• Nail plate

• Nail bed