Muscular System

One of the characteristics of muscles is extensibility.  This allows muscles to:

• consume oxygen

• contract

• react to an impulse

• strech

Karina’s leg was in a cast for ten weeks. You would expect her leg muscles to experience some degree of:

• circumduction

• atrophy

• rotation

• hypertrophy

What muscle is located above the waist

• Gastrocnemius

• Tibialis

  anterior

• Deltoid

• Gluteus Maximus

What would cause a muscle contracture?

• pulling

• Overuse

• twisting

• inactivity

What disabling muscle disorder usually affect children

• Fibromyalgia

• strain

• muscular dystrophy

• myasthenia gravis

When a muscle attaches to a bone, the end that does not move is the:

• origin

• root

• tendon

• insertion

Which muscles are located between the ribs?

• internal obliques

• latissimus dorsi

• intercostals

• Pectoralis

Where is the latissimus dorsi located

• leg

• back

• neck

• shoulder

The walls of the heart are made of:

• contractile muscle

• striated muscle

• voluntary muscle

• cardiac muscle

After you swallow food, what kind of muscle moves the food toward your stomach

• Cardiac

• skeletal

• voluntary

• smooth