How Muscles Contract

How Muscles Contract

7th Grade

25 Qs

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How Muscles Contract

How Muscles Contract

Assessment

Quiz

Science

7th Grade

Hard

NGSS
HS-LS1-7, HS-LS2-3

Standards-aligned

Created by

Lisa Thompson

FREE Resource

25 questions

Show all answers

1.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which type of human body tissue can contract, or shorten?

epithelial tissue

connective tissue

muscle tissue

nerve tissue

Tags

NGSS.HS-LS1-7

2.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

How do pairs of skeletal muscles work together?

One contracts and the other stretches.

While one muscle in the pair contracts, the other returns to its original length.

Both muscles extend at the same time.

One muscle in the pair pulls on a bone, while the second muscle pulls on the first muscle.

3.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When a muscle contracts, it _______

gets longer

gets shorter

gets thinner

grows hair

4.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Cardiac muscle is a _______________ muscle.

involuntary

voluntary

5.

DRAG AND DROP QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

​ (a)   a muscle contraction that changes the length of a muscle ex:​ (b)  

​ (c)   no change in the length of the muscle ex:​ (d)  

Isotonic

Isometric

doing a push up

doing a plank

6.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

When a muscle contracts, it _______

gets longer

gets shorter

gets thinner

grows hair

7.

MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION

1 min • 1 pt

Which muscles are involuntary? Choose the BEST answer.

skeletal

smooth and cardiac

smooth

cardiac

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