Human Muscular System Quiz review

The function of smooth muscle is to:

• Squeeze and move the internal organs

• To move the skeleton

• To help the heart beat

• To protect the body

Muscles are attached to bones by:

• tendons

• ligaments

• myofibrils

• actin

What type of muscle is under conscious control?

• Skeletal

• Cardiac

• Involuntary

• Smooth

After exercising for a long time without rest, the effectiveness of muscle contractions:

• Increases

• Decreases

• Does not change

• Heats up

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A muscle that contracts under conscious control is what kind of muscle?

• Cardiac

• Involuntary

• Smooth

• Voluntary

A muscle that is attached to bone is called _______ muscle.

• Cardiac

• Skeletal

• Smooth

• Striated

What type of muscle is striated?

• Skeletal

• Cardiac

• Smooth

• Both Skeletal and Cardiac

A muscle that lines internal organs such as the organs of the digestive tract is a _______________ muscle.

• cardiac

• skeletal

• smooth

• striated

Each cylindrical muscle fiber is made up of smaller fibers called:

• cells

• myofibrils

• striations

• sarcomeres

Which type of muscle cells have many nuclei in each cell?

• skeletal and smooth

• skeletal and cardiac

• cardiac and smooth

• smooth only