1. Types of Tissues

2. What are the four types of tissues?
Epithelia, muscle, connective, and nervous

3. What is epithelial tissue?
It protects us from the outside world (skin)
Absorbs – stomach and intestinal lining
Filters – the kidney

4. What is nervous tissue?
Conducts impulses to and from body organs via neurons
Sends messages from brain to the rest of the body

5. What is muscle tissue? Responsible for body movement
Moves blood, food, waste through body’s organs
Responsible for mechanical digestion
There are 3 types of muscle tissue
Smooth, Skeletal, and Cardiac

7. What is connective tissue?
Attaches muscles to bones (tendon)
Attaches bone to bone (ligament)
Attaches and supports internal organs