Tissues Practice Test!
1. What type of connective tissue is this?
Hint: The full answer is 4 words
2. What type of connective tissue is this?
Hint: It gets its name from the thin strings in the tissue
3. Where would you find this tissue?
In between vertebrae
Around Heart & Blood vessels
In brain & spinal cord
4. This is a type of cartilage. You can tell because it has more
cells in it than other types of connective tissue. This cartilage
is ALSO defined by the thin strings found in it.
5. This is also a type of cartilage. Again, look at all the cells.
It is defined by the thicker ropes found within the cells
6. This is a generic picture of connective tissue. What are the
purple spheres found in this tissue called?
7. These are glands. What type of tissue are they made from?
8. This is a type of cartilage. Again, look at all the cells.
Although this has thick and thin strings in it, we don’t see
them here. This type of cartilage is the most abundant
cartilage in the body and is often found in between 2 moving
bones. What is it?
9. This is a sebaceous gland with the hair follicle removed.
What does a sebaceous gland secrete?
10. This gland would be made from what type of tissue?
11. This is a type of epithelial tissue. Focus only on the top
row of cells. What type of epithelial tissue is this?
Hint: It is a 2 word answer
12. Where in the body would you find this tissue?
Skin
muslces
nerves
intestines
13. What type of epithelial tissue is this?
Hint: It is also a 2 word answer.
14. Where in the body would you find this tissue?
Skin
glands
nerves
muscles
15. What type of epithelial tissue is this?
Hint: It is also a 2 word answer.
16. What type of epithelial tissue is this?
Hint: It is also a 2 word answer.
17. What are the thick fibers found in this tissue?
18. What are the circles found in this tissue?
19. This is also a type of cartilage. Where in the body would
one find this tissue?
20. Where in the body would one find this tissue?
21. This is a type of cartilage. You can tell because it has
more cells in it than other types of connective tissue. This
cartilage is ALSO defined by the thin strings found in it.
Where in the body would one find this type of cartilage?
Ear
Spine
lungs
glands
22. This is a type of cartilage. What are the cells called in
cartilage?
23. This is a generic picture of connective tissue. What are
the thick ropes found in this tissue called?
24. This is a generic picture of connective tissue. What are
the round circles found in this tissue called?
25. What type of cells are these?
26. These structures pick up incoming chemical
signals in neurons
a. axons
b. dendrites
b. c. chondrocytes
d. osteoblasts
27. These are the most abundant types
of cells in blood
a. platelets
cells
c. white blood cells
b. red blood
d. osteocytes
28. You have just swallowed a Butterfinger
the best candy bar ever. It is traveling down
your esophagus. What type of tissue is it
touching?
Epithelial, Connective, Adipose, or Dense
Regular?
29. The function of the “red” cells
in this picture is _____________
30. What type of junction is used to seal
cells off so that molecules can’t get in
between the plasma membrane of 2
adjacent cells. These junctions are found in
the cells of the digestive system.
a. tight junction
c. gap junction
b. adhering junction
d. fraction junction