Muscular System

How many types of muscles are there?

• 2

• 4

• 3

• 1

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

Match the following

• creates a membrane-like covering for muscles

• Tendon

• attaches a bone to another bone

• Ligament

• attaches a muscle to a bone

• Fascia

Muscles have ​ (a)   or the ability to respond to a stimulus; ​ (b)   or the ability to become short and thick to create movement; ​ ​ (c)   or the ability to be stretched; and ​ (d)   or the ability to return to its original shape.

• excitability
• contractability
• extensibility
• elasticity

Match the following

• involuntary, striated, intercalated disks

• Cardiac

• involuntary, no striations

• Visceral

• voluntary, striated

• Skeletal

Match the following

• helps pump blood and move food through the digestive system

• Skeletal

• creates movement

• Visceral

• forms the walls of the ventricles and atria

• Cardiac

Match the following

• skeletal muscle

• 
• cardiac muscle

• 
• smooth or visceral muscle

• 

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-3

NGSS.MS-LS1-2

NGSS.MS-LS1-1

What are the characteristics of the cardiac muscle?

• Involunatary

• Found in the heart

• Banded Appearance

• Dense connective tissue packaging