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WorksheetsMuscular System
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 48mins
Name
Class
Date
1.
Extensibility allows muscles to...
a)
consume oxygen
b)
contract
c)
react to impulse
d)
stretch
2.
Which is not a property of muscles?
a)
excitability
b)
stability
c)
extensibility
d)
elasticity
3.
What type of muscle makes up the walls of the heart?
a)
cardiac muscle
b)
coronary muscle
c)
striated muscle
d)
voluntary muscle
4.
Where would find voluntary muscle?
a)
attached to the femur
b)
in the bladder
c)
inside the heart
d)
lining the stomach
5.
What type of muscle lines the esophagus?
a)
cardiac
b)
skeletal
c)
smooth
d)
voluntary
6.
What muscle movement occurs when you move your hand from an open palm to a fist?
a)
adduction
b)
flexion
c)
extension
d)
abduction
7.
When a muscle attaches to a bone, the end that does not move is the...
a)
insertion
b)
origin
c)
root
d)
tendon
8.
Disabling muscle disorder that affects children...
a)
fibromyalgia
b)
muscular dystrophy
c)
strain
d)
myasthenia gravis
9.
What muscle is located above the waist?
a)
deltoid
b)
tibialis anterior
c)
gluteus maximus
d)
gastrocnemius
10.
Where is the latissiumus dorsi located?
a)
back
b)
leg
c)
neck
d)
shoulder
11.
What muscle is located in the calf?
a)
gastrocnemius
b)
gluteus maximus
c)
trapezius
d)
triceps
12.
What muscle injury is often caused by overstretching a muscle?
a)
atrophy
b)
dislocation
c)
fibromyalgia
d)
strain
13.
What is atrophy?
a)
wasting away of muscle
b)
muscle spasms
c)
muscle strain
d)
dislocation
14.
Which muscle would you use the most in a 5K?
a)
biceps
b)
pectoralis major
c)
quadriceps femoris
d)
sternocleidomastoid
15.
What muscular disorder causes chronic, widespread pain?
a)
muscular dystrophy
b)
fibromyalgia
c)
strain
d)
myasthenia gravis
16.
This degenerative muscular disease causes progressive atrophy and paralysis.
a)
fibromyalgia
b)
muscular dystrophy
c)
myasthenia gravis
d)
strain
17.
shoulder muscle
a)
deltoid
b)
pectoralis major
c)
sternocleidomastoid
d)
latissimus dorsi
18.
muscles that assist breathing
a)
intercostals
b)
pectoralis major
c)
biceps
d)
deltoid
19.
chest muscles
a)
deltoids
b)
sternocleidomastoids
c)
masseter
d)
pectoralis major
20.
Flexes and rotates the head
a)
sternocleidomastoid
b)
masseter
c)
pectoralis major
d)
deltoid
21.
adduction
a)
moves a body part away from midline
b)
moves a body part toward the midline
c)
moving in a circle at a joint
d)
bending backward
22.
circumduction
a)
moving a body part toward the midline
b)
increasing the angle between two bones
c)
turning a body part on its own axis
d)
moving a body part in a circle at a joint
23.
pronation
a)
turning the palm of the hand downward
b)
decreasing the angle between two bones
c)
turning the palm of the hand upward
d)
bending backward
24.
Flexing the foot toward the knee
a)
dorsiflexion
b)
plantar flexion
c)
extension
d)
supination
25.
Turning the palm of the hand upward
a)
supination
b)
pronation
c)
rotation
d)
flexion
26.
Decreasing the angle between two bones
a)
flexion
b)
extension
c)
rotation
d)
supination
27.
Plantar flexion
a)
Increases the angle between the superior surface of the foot and the leg
b)
decreases the angle between the superior surface of the foot and the leg
28.
a)
orbicularis oris
b)
orbicularis oculi
c)
masseter
d)
sternocleidomastoid
29.
a)
orbicularis oculi
b)
orbicularis oris
c)
sternocleidomastoid
d)
masseter
30.
a)
pectoralis major
b)
deltoid
c)
latissimus dorsi
d)
trapezius
31.
a)
trapezius
b)
sternocleidomastoid
c)
latissimus dorsi
d)
external oblique
32.
a)
biceps
b)
triceps
c)
tibialis anterior
d)
gastrocnemius
33.
a)
vastus lateralis
b)
gastrocnemius
c)
quadriceps femoris
d)
triceps
34.
a)
latissimus dorsi
b)
vastus lateralis
c)
hamstrings
d)
quadriceps femoris
35.
a)
pectoralis major
b)
latissimus dorsi
c)
sternocleidomastoid
d)
biceps
36.
a)
biceps
b)
triceps
c)
hamstrings
d)
gastrocnemius
37.
a)
hamstrings
b)
gluteus maximus
c)
gluteus medius
d)
gastrocenmius
38.
a)
hamstrings
b)
gluteus maxiumus
c)
gluteus medius
d)
gastrocnemius
39.
a)
orbicularis oris
b)
sternocleidomastoid
c)
masseter
d)
trapezius
40.
a)
Hamstrings
b)
gastrocnemius
c)
latissimus dorsi
d)
vastus lateralis
41.
a)
biceps
b)
triceps
c)
hamstrings
d)
vastus lateralis
42.
a)
pectoralis major
b)
trapezius
c)
sternocleidomastoid
d)
latissimus dorsi
43.
a)
biceps
b)
deltoid
c)
triceps
d)
sternocleidomastoid
44.
a)
pectoralis major
b)
external obliques
c)
rectus abdominus
d)
latissimus dorsi
45.
a)
rectus abdominus
b)
external obliques
c)
latissimus dorsi
d)
pectoralis major
46.
a)
external obliques
b)
rectus abdominus
c)
intercostal muscles
d)
latissimus dorsi
47.
a)
intercostal muscles
b)
diaphragm
c)
latissimus dorsi
d)
rectus abdominus
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