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Chapter 5.1

Total questions: 7

Worksheet time: 4mins

Name
Class
Date
1.
You find a muscle fiber that is thread shaped and striated. It is voluntary and is attached to a bone. What category of muscle is this?
a)
Skeletal
b)
Smooth
c)
Cardiac
d)
Striated 
2.
Which category of muscle fiber lines the walls of the heart?
a)
Skeletal
b)
Smooth
c)
Cardiac
d)
Striated
3.
Your stomach is lined with a muscle type that is involuntary, non-striated and moves through waves called peristalsis. What category of muscle is this?
a)
Skeletal
b)
Smooth
c)
Cardiac
d)
Striated
4.
All muscle categories have three things in common. Which of the following is not a behavioral property of muscles?
a)
Extensibility
b)
Compressibility 
c)
Irritability
d)
Contractility
5.
Muscles, when doing work, will move in pairs. When walking, you lift your leg by contracting your quadricep muscles while your hamstring is relaxed. What do we call the quadricep in this scenario? 
a)
Agonist
b)
Antagonist
6.
When lowering an object like a free-weight, your biceps extend, yet still maintain a force. What type of action is this known as?
a)
concentric contraction
b)
eccentric contraction
c)
isometric contraction
d)
isotonic contraction
7.
If you try your best Hulk impression and try to flip a truck, you will (along with pulling something) experience an _____ contraction because your muscle will not be able to shorten. 
a)
Isotonic
b)
Isometric