Muscular System

Without the muscular system, I would not be able to:

• produce new life

• transport oxygen and nutrients to the body

• regulate growth

• provide voluntary movement

Without the muscular system, I would also not be able to:

• serve as a barrier to the sun's UV rays

• produce heat and energy for the body

• regulate growth

• form framework for body's muscles, fat, skin

The muscular system helps me to:

• maintain posture by holding the body erect

• allow the body to react to the environment

• producing vitamin D

• storing calcium

All muscles have these certain properties or characteristics:

• elasticity, elegy, contracture, muscle tone

• excitability, elasticity, contractibility, extensibility

• adduction, abduction, flexion and extension

• cardiac, visceral, smooth and skeletal

There are three kinds of muscles:

• heart, lung and kidney

• voluntary, involuntary and special

• tensons, fascia and contracture

• cardiac, visceral, and skeletal

Which of the following muscles are voluntary?

• cardiac

• smooth

• skeletal

• visceral

Skeletal muscles attach to bones in different ways. Some use a strong tough, fibrous connective-tissure cord called

• tendons

• fascia

• ligaments

• sphincters

Skeletal muscles attach to bones in different ways. Some use a tough, sheetlike membrane that covers and protects the tissue. This is called:

• sphincters

• tendon

• fascia

• ligaments

The part of the muscle that attaches to the bone and does not move is called the

• tendon

• fascia

• origin

• insertion

The part of the muscle that moves when a muscle contracts is called the

• insertion

• inversion

• origin

• original