Chapter 5
The prefix adip means this.
What is fat?
This 'membrane' connects the dermis and the epidermis.
What is the basement membrane?
The prefix odont means this.
What is tooth?
This capital city has the largest population of any city in the world.
What is Tokyo?
This all-time great MLB player is nicknamed "The Kid" in large part due to the fact that his same-named father was also an MLB HoFer.
Who is Ken Griffey Jr.?
This, along with secretion, absorption, and excretion, is the fourth function of epithelial tissue.
What is protection?
You find much of the underlying adipose tissue in this layer which literally means "under the skin."
What is the subcutaneous layer?
Along with calcium carbonate, this mineral salt is responsible for much of the hardness of bones.
What is calcium phosphate?
Alexander the Great's father was King Phillip II of this political entity which shares its name with a modern day "north" country.
What is Macedonia?
Everyone knows Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, but do you know that this man was second?
Who is Buzz Aldrin?
These type of glands secrete by duplicating and performing apoptosis.
What are holocrine glands?
These two glands populate the dermis.
What are sweat and sebaceous glands?
These are the fundamental cell units of bone tissue.
What are osteocytes?
This mountain range, along with the Ural Mountains, is commonly considered to separate Europe and Asia.
What are the Caucuses?
With all the new Wicked hype, let's not forget about these two women who played Glinda and Elphaba in the original Broadway play.
Who are Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenowith?
Mast cells secrete this hormone which is vital for inflammation.
What is histamine?
As opposed to the terminal hair which grows in a few specific places, this type of hair grows on the arms, legs, and anywhere else terminal hair doesn't.
What is vellus hair?
What are osteons?
This city, in which Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, is currently the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
What is Sarajevo?
With a name similar to golf's favorite "bear", this actor is well known for his roles in The Shining, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, and as the Joker in the 1989 Batman.
Chondrocytes are the cells which compose this type of connective tissue.
What is cartilage?
This is the muscle responsible for goosebumps.
What is the arrector pili?
Bones begin losing density at this age.
What is 30 years old?
This is the longest river in Asia.
What is the Yangtze River?
This woman who recently made headlines with her novel, Demon Copperhead, is also famous for novels such as The Poisonwood Bible and The Bean Trees.
Who is Barbara Kingsolver?