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WorksheetsMuscular System
Total questions: 15
Worksheet time: 8mins
Total number of muscular muscles.
200
400
600
What is the main purpose of our muscles?
Excrete toxins
Provide movement for the body
Reproduce new cells
How do muscles receive their ability to move the body?
Muscular System
Nervous System
Skeletal System
This property of muscles means that they are capable of receiving stimulation and responding to stimulation from the nerves.
Extensible
Contractible
Excitable or Irritable
What do you call the capability of muscles to contract or shorten after receiving stimulation?
extensible
contractible
excitable or irritable
Another property of muscles which means that muscles can be stretch by the application of force without damaging it.
extensible
contractible
excitable or irritable
It means that a muscle is able to return to its original shape and length after being extended or contracted.
excitable or irritable
elasticity
adaptability
It means enlarging the muscles.
Hypertension
Hypermarket
Hypertrophy
It means wasting of muscles.
Atrophy
Trophy
BIotrophy
Moving of body part toward the midline of the body.
flexion
abduction
adduction
Bending a joint to decrease the angle between two bones or two body parts.
abduction
adduction
flexion
Straightening and extending of the joint to increase the angle between two bones or body parts.
extension
flexion
rotation
It involves moving a body part around an axis.
flexion
extension
rotation
These muscles form the walls of the heart and contracts to circulate blood.
visceral or smooth muscles
skeletal muscles
cardiac muscles
These muscles are attach to the skeleton and provide the skeleton to move.
cardiac muscles
visceral muscles
skeletal muscles
