Your skin has multiple layers of epithelial cells. the apical cells (closest to the surface, "top") are "flat" and the basal cells (farther from surface bottom") are "as tall as they are wide". another way to describe this epithelium would be to state:
a. simple columnar epithelium
b. simple cuboidal epithelium
c. simple squamous epithelium
d. stratified columnar epithelium
e. stratified cuboidal epithelium
f. stratified squamous epithelium
g. simple transitional epithelium