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Muscular System

Total questions: 35

Worksheet time: 21mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What muscle is highlighted in the picture?

a)

Triceps

b)

Biceps

c)

Quads

d)

Deltoids

2.

What muscle is highlighted in the picture?

a)

Triceps

b)

Biceps

c)

Quads

d)

Deltoids

3.

What muscle is highlighted?

a)

Triceps

b)

Biceps

c)

Quads

d)

Deltoids

4.

What muscles is highlighted?

a)

Deltoid

b)

Trapezius

c)

Tricep

d)

Pectoralis

5.

What muscle is highlighted?

a)

Trapezius

b)

Lats

c)

Pectoralis

d)

Deltoids

6.

What muscle is highlighted?

a)

Lats

b)

Abdominals

c)

Pectoralis

d)

Quads

7.

What muscle is highlighted?

a)

Abdominals

b)

Quads

c)

Gluteus

d)

Hamstring

8.

What muscle is highlighted?

a)

Hamstrings

b)

Quads

c)

Calves

d)

Gluteus

9.

What muscle is highlighted?

a)

Hamstrings

b)

Quads

c)

Calves

d)

Gluteus

10.

What effect does the bicep have on the elbow joint?

a)

none

b)

increases the joint angle

c)

decreases the joint angle

d)

allows it to work as an extensor

11.

What muscle allows you to breath?

a)

frontalis

b)

diaphragm

c)

trapezius

d)

none of these

12.

What type of muscle tissue is the diaphragm?

a)

smooth

b)

cardiac

c)

skeletal

d)

connective

13.

Skeletal Muscles are...

a)

voluntary

b)

involuntary

14.

Name the most abundant organelle found in muscle cells.

a)

nucleus

b)

ribosomes

c)

mitochondria

d)

chloroplast

15.

Identify the "Effort" in the 1st class lever.

a)

trapezius

b)

gastrocnemius

c)

bicep

d)

tricep

16.

Identify the "Resistance" in the 2nd class lever.

a)

head

b)

arm and load

c)

body

d)

gastrocnemius

17.

What type of joint is found in the 1st class lever?

a)

hinge

b)

ball and socket

c)

pivot

d)

immoveable, suture

18.

No striations are visible.

a)

skeletal

b)

smooth

c)

cardiac

d)

heart

19.

The striations found in skeletal muscle is caused by...

a)

the color of the cytoplasm

b)

the many nuclei

c)

actin and myosin protein filaments

d)

calcium

20.

Smooth muscle cells are...

a)

uninucleated

b)

binucleated

c)

multinucleated

d)

both uni and binucleated

21.

abductor muscles are muscles that enable you to...

a)

move body parts back towards the body

b)

decrease the angle joint

c)

move body parts away from the body

d)

breath

22.

The tricep muscle is a flexor muscle, it decreases the joint angle.

a)

true

b)

false

c)

false, the bicep muscle

d)

false, it increases the angle joint

23.

Your muscle cells get fatigued when you exercise because of the build up of __________

a)

oxygen

b)

carbon dioxide

c)

water

d)

lactic acid

24.

What is the function of the cardiac muscle?

a)

movement of bones

b)

movement of liquids inside the body

c)

movement of blood out of the heart

d)

movement of food

25.

Which type of muscle has a direct effect on bone?

a)

smooth

b)

cardiac

c)

skeletal

d)

solid

26.

Smooth muscle tissue is found:

a)

attached to bone

b)

lining hollow organs and body tubes

c)

in the wall of the heart

d)

lining long bones

27.

What specific muscles protect the soft tissue of your gallbladder and pancreas?

a)

skeletal and smooth

b)

abdominals and obliques

c)

bicep and tricep

d)

gastrocnemius and latissimus dorsi

28.

Identify the "Resistance" in the 3rd class lever?

a)

trapezius

b)

bicep

c)

lower arm

d)

body

29.

What does it mean for a cell to be multinucleated?

a)

the nucleus has many functions

b)

the cell has access to nuclei of many cells

c)

the cell has many nuclei

d)

iI has nothing to do with the nucleus and more to do with the increased number of nucleoli.

30.

Muscles work as _____ pairs.

a)

antagonistic

b)

symbiotic

c)

matching

d)

synchronized

31.

Where in your body would a 1st class lever be found?

a)

lower leg and foot

b)

upper arm and back

c)

head and neck

d)

upper and lower arm

32.

What type of joint is in a first class lever?

a)

hinge

b)

toe

c)

pivot

d)

elbow

33.

What resistance are you moving in a 3rd class lever?

a)

body

b)

head

c)

lower arm

d)

bicep

34.

Where is the Fulcrum involved in a 2nd class lever?

a)

metatarsals and phalanges

b)

metacarpals and phalanges

c)

skull and vertebrae

d)

elbow

35.

Identify the mistake

a)

trapezius - effort

b)

pivot - fulcrum

c)

arm - gastrocnemius

d)

resistance - body