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Histology

Total questions: 45

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

How do we classify epithelial tissue?

a)

Shape

b)

Shape and number of layers

c)

Counting the number of individual cells

d)

Squamous

2.

What is histology?

a)

Study of organs

b)

Study of different types of tissue

c)

Study of histamines

d)

Study of skin

3.

What does pseudostratified mean?

a)

Many layers of cells

b)

Single layer that looks like many layers of cells

c)

Single layer of cells

d)

No layer of cells

4.

What is the most abundant type of tissue in the human body?

a)

Nervous

b)

Muscle

c)

Connective

d)

Epithelial

5.

Which of the following is NOT a type of cartilage found in the human body?

a)

Hyaline

b)

Elastic

c)

Regular

d)

Fibrocartilage

6.

Identify the type of connective tissue from the picture above.

a)

Spongy Bone

b)

bone (osseous)

c)

reticular

d)

dense irregular

7.

Identify the type of connective tissue from the picture above.

a)

adipose/fat

b)

areolar

c)

blood

d)

lymph

8.

Striations can be seen in which type of muscle tissues?

a)

Smooth and cardiac

b)

smooth and skeletal

c)

skeletal and cardiac

d)

Cardiac only

9.

In which body structure would we find smooth muscle?

a)

Heart

b)

hamstring muscles

c)

bladder

d)

skin

10.

In which tissue type do we find "intercalated discs?"

a)

Adipose tissue

b)

Cardiac muscle

c)

Nervous tissue

d)

Connective tissue

11.

What are the two main cells that make up nervous tissue?

a)

neurons

b)

myelin

c)

axon

d)

neuroglia

12.

Nervous tissue is found in the brain, spinal cord, and nerves and is responsible for communication.

a)

true

b)

false

13.
Which of the following is not one of the four tissue types? 
a)
Blood
b)
Connective
c)
Epithelial
d)
Nervous 
14.
What type of connective tissue are tendons and ligaments?
a)
Dense Connective Tissue
b)
Bone
c)
Loose Connective Tissue
d)
Cartilage
15.

Which type of tissue is avascular (no blood vessels) and tightly packed?

a)

Epithelial

b)

Connective

c)

Areolar

d)

Adipose

16.

Which type of epithelial cells have the ability to change shape?

a)

Columnar

b)

Cuboidal

c)

Squamous

d)

Transitional

17.

The process by which fluid or a nutrient it taken into a cell

a)

Absorption

b)

Diffusion

c)

Osmosis

d)

Secretion

18.

Areolar, Adipose, & Reticular are all types of...

a)

cartilage

b)

loose connective tissue

c)

dense connective tissue

d)

epithelium

19.

Hyaline, elastic, & fibro- are all types of this...

a)

cartilage

b)

loose connective tissue

c)

dense regular connective tissue

d)

dense irregular connective tissue

20.

These cells send impulses throughout the body and include branchlike appendages called dendrites...

a)

connective tissue

b)

epithelium

c)

spinal cord

d)

neurons

21.
A tissue is 
a)
A membrane that lines body cavities.
b)
A group of similar cells that perform a common function.
c)
A thin sheet of cells embedded in matrix.
d)
The most complex organizational unit of the body.
22.
Name the tissue
a)
nervous tissue
b)
connective tissue
c)
epithelial tissue
d)
muscle tissue
23.

Identify this epithelial tissue.

a)

Stratified cuboidal

b)

Stratified columnar

c)

Simple columnar

d)

Pseudostratified

24.
Identify the type of muscle tissue
a)
cardiac
b)
smooth
c)
skeletal
25.
Identify the type of muscle tissue
a)
skeletal
b)
cardiac
c)
smooth
26.
Identify the type of muscle tissue
a)
smooth
b)
skeletal
c)
cardiac
27.

This is a picture of SKELETAL MUSCLE. Cells of skeletal muscle are under electrical control. Which tissue would communicate with muscle fibers and tell them to contract?

a)

Stratified squamous

b)

Blood

c)

Tendons

d)

Neurons

28.

Where are you MOST likely to find the following cells?

a)

Lungs

b)

Skin

c)

Esophagus

d)

Bladder

29.

Where are you most likely to find the following cells?

a)

Flowing through blood vessels

b)

Just under skin

c)

Anchoring a muscle to a bone

d)

Covering the ends of bones

30.

This is a typical NEURON, which is the major functional cell of nervous tissue. All the surrounding cells are neuroglia. What is the function of neuroglia?

a)

Support, insulate and repair the neuron

b)

Make collagen and elastin proteins

c)

Sense and respond to the environment

d)

Maintain homeostasis

31.

Which of the following tissues would most likely be found in the walls of the heart?

a)
b)
c)
d)
32.

Which of the following is the SOFTEST tissue in the body?

a)
b)
c)
d)
33.

Which of the following is not a type of connective tissue?

a)

Blood

b)

Bone

c)

Skin

d)

Adipose

34.

cartilage cells type

a)

adipocyte

b)

chondrocyte

c)

osteocyte

d)

histocyte

35.
which tissue is this?
a)
Pseudostratified columnar
b)
Stratified Squamous
c)
Simple Columnar
d)
Transitional
36.

Identify the following type of tissue:

a)

Stratified squamous epithelium

b)

Smooth muscle

c)

Stratified cuboidal epithelium

d)

Transitional epithelium

37.

Identify the following tissue type:

a)

Smooth muscle

b)

Cardiac muscle

c)

Skeletal muscle

d)

Simple cuboidal

38.

Identify the following tissue type:

a)

Pseudostratified columnar epithelium

b)

Simple columnar epithelium

c)

Stratified columnar epithelium

d)

Transitional epithelium

39.

Identify the following tissue type:

a)

Simple columnar epithelium

b)

Smooth muscle

c)

Cardiac muscle

d)

Skeletal muscle

40.

Identify this type of tissue:

a)

Stratified squamous epithelium

b)

Smooth muscle

c)

Skeletal muscle

d)

Cardiac muscle

41.

Skeletal Muscles has multinucleated cells

a)

True

b)

False

42.
Which tissue is this?
a)
Simple Squamous
b)
Stratified Squamous
c)
Simple cuboidal
d)
Pseudostratified columnar
43.

Which tissue is this?

a)

Adipose Tissue

b)

Dense Connective Tissue

c)

Hyaline Cartilage

d)

Elastic Cartilage

e)

Fibrocartilage

44.
Name the Tissue Type:
a)
Blood
b)
Simple cuboidal
c)
Reticular
d)
Areolar
45.
Name the Tissue Type:
a)
Simple squamous
b)
Areolar
c)
Adipose
d)
Reticular