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Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 8mins

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1.

What two proteins are needed for muscle contraction in the human body?

a)

tropin & tropymosin

b)

actin $ Calcium

c)

actin & myosin

d)

ATP & Calcium

2.

What do we call the simplest part of a muscle that is made up of tiny, parallel threads called?

a)

sarcomere

b)

myofibril

c)

perimysium

d)

Epimysium

3.

Your muscle fibers form large, string like bundles called?

a)

Epimysium

b)

perimysium

c)

Myofibril

d)

Fascicles

4.

What are the two components that are needed to begin contraction?

a)

Acytelcholine and Actin

b)

Acytelcholine and myosin

c)

ATP and Calcium ions

d)

ATP and Sodium ions

5.

Where are the actin and myosin filaments in every one of your muscle fibers located?

a)

endomysium

b)

perimysium

c)

Epimysium

d)

Sarcomere

6.

Name what this is in your mucles?

a)

sarcomere

b)

sarcoplasmic reticulum

c)

mitochondria

d)

tublules

7.

What is the very first thing that needs to occur for a muscle contraction?

a)

actin

b)

myosin

c)

Calcium

d)

Action Potential by a motor neuron.

8.

Which of the following list of words would include the function of muscles?

a)

movement, heat production, posture, contractility

b)

movement, heat production, posture, excitability, contractility, extensiblity, elasticity

c)

movement, blood formation, heat production

d)

none of the above

9.

What do you call the muscle attachment, where the muscle does not move when it contracts?

a)

attachment

b)

insertion

c)

origin

d)

none of the above

10.

What are the three types of muscle ?

a)

cardiac, smooth, skeletal

b)

smooth ER, Rough ER

c)

skeletal only

d)

all the above

11.

What do you call the structure in blue?

a)

myosin

b)

actin

c)

cross bridge

d)

ATP

12.

Name the area in the left diagram?

a)

synaptic cleft

b)

Cardy B

c)

Neuromuscular Junction

d)

None

13.

Name the structure labeled #1 in diagram.

a)

endomysium

b)

epimysium

c)

perimysium

d)

myofibril

14.

Name the structure labeled #5 in diagram.

a)

endomysium

b)

epimysium

c)

perimysium

d)

myofibril

15.

Name the structure labeled #3 in diagram.

a)

endomysium

b)

epimysium

c)

perimysium

d)

myofibril