Module 5 Lesson 5 Muscular System

Muscles that are under your conscious control.

• Contraction

• Voluntary Muscles

• Involuntary Muscles

• Muscle Fibers

• Muscular system

Muscles that are not under your conscious control.

• Contraction

• Voluntary Muscles

• Involuntary Muscles

• Muscle Fibers

• Muscular system

long, thin cells that can contract because they are made of proteins

• Contraction

• Voluntary Muscles

• Involuntary Muscles

• Muscle Fibers

• Muscular system

Consists of all the muscles in the body. This is the body system that allows us to move.

• Contraction

• Voluntary Muscles

• Involuntary Muscles

• Muscle Fibers

• Muscular system

Shortening of muscle fibers.

• Contraction

• Voluntary Muscles

• Involuntary Muscles

• Muscle Fibers

• Muscular system

What muscle pushes food through your intestines?

• skeletal muscle

• smooth muscle

• cardiac muscle

• intestinal muscle

What muscle is found only in one place in the body?

• skeletal muscle

• smooth muscle

• cardiac muscle

• brain muscle

True or False: Your body has only three types of muscles.

• True

• False

Which of the following are functions of smooth muscle?

• helps a woman to push out her baby

• regulates air flow in lungs

• move food through the digestive tract

• all of the above

What muscles are not under voluntary control?

• skeletal muscle and smooth muscle

• skeletal muscle and cardiac muscle

• cardiac muscle and smooth muscle

• bone muscle and heart muscle