Muscular System Practice

Muscles that are attached to bones.

• Skeletal Muscle

• Smooth Muscle

• Cardiac Muscle

• Tendon

Muscles that are found in the walls of hollow organs, blood vessels, etc.

• Smooth Muscle

• Skeletal Muscle

• Cardiac Muscle

• Tendon

Muscles that are only found in the heart.

• Cardiac Muscle

• Skeletal Muscle

• Smooth Muscle

• Tendon

Smooth muscle is responsible for:

• Voluntary movements of the body

• Pumping blood through the heart

• Movement of food through the digestive tract

• Transmitting nerve impulses

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NGSS.MS-LS1-7

Cardiac muscle is responsible for:

• Pumping blood throughout the body

• Digesting food

• Transmitting nerve impulses

• Filtering waste from blood

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Skeletal muscle is responsible for:

• voluntary movements

• digesting food

• pumping blood

• producing hormones

Muscles work by contracting and relaxing to produce movement.

• True

• False

How many muscles are there in the human body?

• 550

• 230

• 640

• 950

Which of the following do tendons connect to the bone?

• Cartilage

• Bone

• Muscle

• Ligaments

Which of the following do ligaments connect?

• Muscle to bone

• Cartilage to bone

• Bone to bone

• Tendons to muscles