Muscle Tissue Quiz

Muscle tissue is made of excitable cells that are capable of what?

• Contraction

• Photosynthesis

• Conducting electricity

• Secreting hormones

What is the most abundant tissue in most animals, including humans?

• Nervous tissue

• Epithelial tissue

• Muscle tissue

• Connective tissue

What are the three major types of muscle tissue?

• Cardiac, smooth, and skeletal

• Connective, smooth, and skeletal

• Cardiac, nervous, and skeletal

• Connective, nervous, and cardiac

Why is cardiac muscle so named?

• Because it is found in the lungs

• Because it is found in the heart

• Because it is found in the brain

• Because it is found in the stomach

What attaches skeletal muscle to the bones?

• Ligaments

• Tendons

• Cartilage

• Fascia

Skeletal muscle is controlled by which nervous system?

• Central nervous system

• Peripheral nervous system

• Autonomic nervous system

• Somatic nervous system

Skeletal muscle is associated with the body's what kind of movements?

• Involuntary

• Reflexive

• Voluntary

• Automatic

What type of muscle is found in various parts of the body, including the blood vessels, the bladder, and digestive tract as well as many other organs?

• Cardiac muscle

• Skeletal muscle

• Smooth muscle

• Connective muscle

Organs of the what systems are lined with smooth muscle?

• Respiratory and nervous

• Digestive and lymphatic

• Circulatory and respiratory

• Digestive and urinary

Through what activity, such as weight lifting, do the muscle cells increase in size but the overall number of cells does not increase?

• Mitosis

• Hyperplasia

• Hypertrophy

• Atrophy