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Muscular system review

Total questions: 25

Worksheet time: 13mins

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1.

How do cells of the three types of muscle tissues differ from one another automatically?

a)

Skeletal muscle movements can be very forceful and rapid, where areas smooth muscle movements tend to be slow and often rhythmic

b)

Skeletal muscle cells are long multinucleate cells with striations. Cardiac cells are branching, typically uninucleate cells. Smooth muscles cells are spindle-shaped uninucleate cells, nonstriated.

c)

Muscles use bones as levers to bring about the body movements.

2.

Which muscle type has the most elaborate connective tissue wrappings?

a)

Skeletal muscle

b)

Smooth muscle

c)

Cardiac muscle

3.

What does striated mean relative to muscle cells?

a)

Forceful and rapid

b)

Slow and often rhythmic

c)

Striped, or having bands

d)

Responsible for bonding pattern of the skeletal muscle cells.

4.

How do the movement promoted by skeletal muscle differ from those promoted by smooth muscle?

a)

Skeletal muscle cells are long multinucleate cells and smooth muscle cells are spindle-shaped uninucleate cells.

b)

Skeletal muscle movements can be very forceful, or rapid, whereas smooth muscle movements tend to be slow and often rhythmic

c)

The alignment of the bands on the myofilaments are responsible for the banding pattern in skeletal muscle cells.

d)

The axon ending of a motor neuron and the sarcolemma of the skeletal muscle cell.

5.

Specifically, what is responsible for the banding pattern in skeletal muscle cells?

a)

The alignment of the bands on the myofilaments is responsible for the banding pattern in skeletal muscle cells.

b)

The axon ending of a motor neuron and the sarcolemma of the skeletal muscle cell.

c)

Nerve fibers must be myelinated

d)

Exercise defers or reduces the natural loss in muscle mass and strength that occurs in old age.

6.

What two structures are closely associated at a neuromuscular junction?

a)

The axon ending of a motor neuron and the sarcolemma of the skeletal muscle cell

b)

The alignment of the bands

c)

Myofilaments

d)

Isometric contraction

7.

What chemical triggers sliding of the muscle filaments?

a)

Sodium ions enter the cells during action potential generation

b)

Phosphorylation of ADP by CP, stored ATP, and ATP generated by glucose oxidation.

c)

Stored ATP

d)

Calcium ions trigger the sliding of the myofilaments

8.

What ions enter the muscle cell during action potential generation?

a)

Sodium ions enter the cells during action potential generation.

b)

Calcium ions trigger the sliding of the myofilaments

c)

Phosphorylation of ADP by CP, stored ATP, and ATP generated by glucose oxidation.

d)

Stored ATP

9.

Which is a cross-bridge attachment more similar to: a precise rowing team or a person pulling a bucket on a rope out of a well?

a)

A precise rowing team

b)

Pulling a bucket out of a well

10.

What are the three energy sources for skeletal muscle contraction?

a)

Stored ATP

b)

Calcium ions, sodium ions, phosphorus ions

c)

Phosphorylation of ADP by CP, stored ADP, and ATP

d)

ADP

11.

What is the immediate source of energy for muscle contraction?

a)

ADP

b)

Calcium ions

c)

Sodium ions

d)

Stored ATP

12.

Gary is trying with all his might to pull a tree stump out of a ground. It does not budge. Which type of contraction are his muscles undergoing?

a)

Isometric contraction

b)

Abduction

c)

Oxygen deficit

d)

Circular

13.

What is meant by the term 'oxygen deficit'?

a)

Flexion and extension

b)

Muscle that runs straight up the abdomen

c)

Oxygen deficit occurs when a person is not able to take oxygen fast enough to keep their muscles supplied with all the oxygen they need when working vigorously.

d)

Muscle that straightens the spine

14.

To develop big, beautiful skeletal muscles, should your exercise focus be aerobic or resistance type exercise?

a)

Resistance exercise leads to increased muscle size

b)

Aerobic exercise leads to bigger muscles

c)

Neither

15.

What action is being performed by a person who sticks out their thumb to hitch a ride?

a)

Flexion

b)

Circular

c)

Abduction

d)

Extension

16.

What actions take place at the neck when you nod your head up and down as if saying "yes"?

a)

Flexion and extension

b)

Circular

c)

Adduction

d)

Abduction

17.

Based on their names, deduce some characteristics of the following muscles: tibialis anterior, erector spinae, rectus abdominis.

a)

Erector spinae

b)

Rectus abdominis

c)

Tibialis anterior

d)

Neither

18.

What is the fascicle arrangement of the orbicularis oris muscle

a)

Adduction

b)

Flexion

c)

Extension

d)

Circular

19.

IN what way are the fixators and synergist muscles important?

a)

Are synergists in jaw closure

b)

They anchor or aid the activity of the prime mover

c)

Runs straight up the spine

d)

Straighten the spine

20.

Which muscle raises your eyebrow?

a)

Orbicularis oris

b)

Zygomaticus

c)

Frontalis

d)

Trapezius

21.

Which two muscles are synergists in jaw closure?

a)

Erector spinae and latissimus dorsi

b)

Soleus and gastrocnemius

c)

Triceps brachii and quadriceps

d)

Masseter and temporalis

22.

Which muscle group is the prime mover of back extension?

a)

Erector spinae

b)

Clavicle

c)

Deltoid

d)

Trapezius

23.

What structural feature makes the abdominal musculature especially strong for its thickness?

a)

Works vigorously

b)

It's like plywood

c)

Run in different directions

d)

Makes the abdominal wall very strong

24.

Which muscle of the posterior trunk is the synergist of the pectoralis major muscle in arm adduction?

a)

Deltoid

b)

Trapezius

c)

Latissimus dorsi

d)

Sternocleidomastoid

25.

Which muscle group is the antagonist of the hamstring muscles?

a)

Triceps brachii

b)

Latissimus dorsi

c)

Quadriceps

d)

Erector spinae