Muscular System

Which of these is NOT a function of the muscular system?

• Allows for sensation

• Creates body movement

• Protects internal organs

• Heat production

• Maintain body posture and shape

What muscle attaches to the bone and produces movement?

• skeletal muscle

• cardiac muscle

• smooth muscle

• visceral muscle

What type of muscle makes of the walls of our internal organs?

• smooth muscles

• voluntary muscle

• striated muscle

• cardiac muscle

Point of origin refers to .......

• the place where the muscles attach to the bone, but no movement occurs

• the place where the muscles attach the and movement occurs

• where a muscle attaches to another muscle

• the membrane the covers and supports muscles

There are approximately how many individual muscles in the body?

Match the following

• attaches a muscle to a bone

• Ligament

• creates a membrane-like covering for muscles

• Tendon

• attaches a bone to another bone

• Fascia

Match the following

• Adductors, flexors

• Named for their locations

• Vastus lateralis, vastus medialis, vastus intermedius

• Named for their shapes

• gluteus minimus, gluteus medius

• Named for their functions

• Deltoid, Rhomboid, Trapezius

• Named for it's size

• Biceps brachii, triceps brachii,

• Named for the number of heads (origins)

Match the following

• the point of a muscle which attaches to a stationary bone

• Insertion

• the point of a muscle which attaches to a bone that performs the movement

• Belly

• the largest part of the muscle containing the muscle cells

• Origin

Think about the action of the triceps. Then label the origin, belly, and insertion.

a

b

c

origin

insertion

belly

Match the following

• a muscle that opposes the action of another

• Synergist

• a muscle that is most important in the creation of a specific action or movement

• Prime Mover or agonist

• muscles working together in the same direction of motion

• Antagonist