Muscular System Physiology

How many types of muscles are there?

• 2

• 4

• 3

• 1

What are the characteristics of the cardiac muscle?

• Involunatary

• Found in the heart

• Banded Appearance

• Dense connective tissue packaging

Smooth Muscle is found in the?

• Heart

• Facial

• Organs

• Legs

The connective tissue sheath that surrounds a muscle fascicle is the

• epimysium

• endomysium

• perimysium

Which of the following is NOT a type of muscle?

• Rough
• Smooth
• Cardiac
• Skeletal

Skeletal muscles are responsible for which of the following?

• Movement of the body

• Movement of the heart

• Contraction in the digestive tract

Which of the following describes the sarcomere? 

• The basic unit of a muscle’s myofibril that contracts

• A protein band which defines the boundary between one sarcomere.

•  Various muscle proteins 

• Contains the protein actin

How do pairs of skeletal muscles work together?

• while one contracts, the other returns to original length
• both muscles contract at the same time
• both muscles relax at the same time
• 1 muscle pulls on the bone and the other pulls on the first muscle

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

• smooth muscles

• voluntary muscle

• striated muscle

• cardiac muscle

__________________ anchors the the muscle to bone

• aponeurosis

• fascia

• tendons

• ligament