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Muscular System

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 10mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What muscle attaches to the bone and produces movement?

a)

skeletal muscle

b)

cardiac muscle

c)

smooth muscle

d)

visceral muscle

2.

What muscle makes up the heart?

a)

involuntary muscle

b)

smooth muscle

c)

cardiac muscle

d)

voluntary muscle

3.

What are the functions of the muscles?

a)

hold the body erect

b)

helps generate body heat

c)

helps blood move through the veins and food through the digestive system

d)

all are functions of the muscles.

4.

A normal pulse rate in beats per minute is....

a)

90-100 bpms

b)

60-100 bpms

c)

30-60 bpms

d)

120-140 bpms

5.

What type of muscle makes of the walls of our internal organs?

a)

smooth muscles

b)

voluntary muscle

c)

striated muscle

d)

cardiac muscle

6.

__________________ anchors the the muscle to bone

a)

aponeurosis

b)

fascia

c)

tendons

d)

ligament

7.

Point of origin refers to .......

a)

the place where the muscles attach to the bone, but no movement occurs

b)

the place where the muscles attach the and movement occurs

c)

where a muscle attaches to another muscle

d)

the membrane the covers and supports muscles

8.

Bradykinesia

a)

uncoordinated movement

b)

excessive movement

c)

slow movement

d)

shortening of a muscle

9.

Myorrhapy

a)

to suture a muscle

b)

to do surgery on a muscle

c)

the removal of a muscle

d)

the rupture of a muscle

10.

The term for an involuntary muscle contraction.

a)

atrophy

b)

spasm

c)

tenodesis

d)

adhesion

11.

Movement away from the body

a)

extension

b)

flexion

c)

adduction

d)

abduction

12.

The bending of a joint

a)

extension

b)

flexion

c)

supination

d)

pronation

13.

Extension

a)

the straightening of a joint

b)

the bending of a joint

c)

supination

d)

pronation

14.

Supination

a)

turns the palm up or forward

b)

turns the palm down or backwards

c)

raising of a body part

d)

lowering of a body part

15.

How are muscles named ?

a)

by location

b)

by fiber direction

c)

by the number of divisions

d)

all these are correct

16.

About how many muscles do you have in your body?

a)

600

b)

50

c)

1,000

d)

100

17.

Which is NOT a kind of muscle in the human body?

a)

exoskeletal

b)

smooth

c)

skeletal

d)

cardiac

18.

What best describes your heart?

a)

smooth muscle

b)

skeletal muscle

c)

cardiac muscle

d)

memory muscle

19.

Muscles are working in your body even when you are asleep and still.

a)

True

b)

False

20.

I am a muscle attached to a bone. I am a voluntary muscle. I appear striped under the microscope. What kind of muscle am I?

a)

skeletal

b)

smooth

c)

cardiac

d)

memory