Spencer_Elisabeth test: skin

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3. Your dead skin cells make up what percentage of the dust in your house?

Back (Answer)

80% • IHM_-_Skin_Questions

Front (Question)

2. The independent variable in our experiment with the potato was what?

Back (Answer)

Water temperature • Lab_Questions_Temperature_and_Enzymes

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4. What is the hypodermis and where is it?

Back (Answer)

The layer underneath the dermis, and it is a layer of cells • CLF_-_Skin

Front (Question)

6. What is the epidermis?

Back (Answer)

The outer layer of dead skin • CLF_-_Skin

Front (Question)

7. What is the dermis and where is it?

Back (Answer)

Layer of cells that contains hair follicles, sweat glands, oil glands, and blood vessels. It also holds nerve endings that give you sense of touch. It is located beneath the epidermis and above the hypodermis • CLF_-_Skin

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11. What is the basal layer?

Back (Answer)

The area where new cells are made in the epidermis, and it is located above the epidermis • CLF_-_Skin

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12. What are the things on your skin that are found in the epidermis?

Back (Answer)

The dead skin cells in the epidermis • IHM_-_Skin_Questions

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13. What’s a blood vessel?

Back (Answer)

Carries blood thorough parts of the body • CLF_-_Skin

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16. What’s the arrector pili muscle?

Back (Answer)

Muscle that contracts when you are scared or cold • CLF_-_Skin

#10

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20. The forehead, eyelids, and shins are missing which layer of skin?

Back (Answer)

Subcutaneous tissue • IHM_-_Skin_Questions

#11

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24. What tissues make up the skin?

Back (Answer)

Epithelial, connective, and nervous • KaplanSkin

#12

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25. For a cell to move from basal layer to top layer of the epidermis takes approximately how much time?

Back (Answer)

2 weeks • CLF_-_Skin

#13

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29. How many layers of skin cells are found in the epidermis?

Back (Answer)

5 • IHM_-_Skin_Questions

#14

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30. What will help cool the body?

Back (Answer)

Evaporation of sweat from the skins surface • IHM_-_Skin_Questions

#15

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34. What measures heat?

Back (Answer)

Thermometer • Lab_Questions_Temperature_and_Enzymes

#16

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37. Muscles associated with hair follicles and are positioned in such a way that they contract in reaction to cold or emotional stimuli

Back (Answer)

Arrector pili • CLF_-_Skin

#17

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38. What do sebaceous glands, hair follicles, and sweat glands have in common?

Back (Answer)

They’re all found in the dermis • CLF_-_Skin

#18

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41. Area of the body where touch receptors are most abundant on what?

Back (Answer)

Tongue, lips, hands, and feet • IHM_-_Skin_Questions

#19

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47. You have a new epidermis after what amount of time?

Back (Answer)

Three to five weeks • IHM_-_Skin_Questions

#20

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49. What are the skin layers from innermost to outermost?

Back (Answer)

Hypodermics, Dermis, Epidermis • CLF_-_Skin

#21

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52. What are sweat glands?

Back (Answer)

Aid in cooling the body • IHM_-_Skin_Questions

#22

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53. What is a function of the fibers in the dermis?

Back (Answer)

Strength, elasticity, and structure • CLF_-_Skin

#23

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54. Light-skinned races such as Caucasians have what?

Back (Answer)

Approximately the same number melanocytes than races with darker skins • Skin and acne notes (brainpop)

#24

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56. What are the two fibers of the dermis?

Back (Answer)

Collagen and Elastin • Skin and acne notes (brainpop)