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WorksheetsThe Muscular System
Total questions: 17
Worksheet time: 9mins
Which is not a function of the muscular system?
Support
Movement
Blood production
Homeostasis
A muscle that is short is referred to as
Brevis
Longus
Adductor
Extensor
Which type of muscle is involuntary and striated?
Skeletal
Cardiac
Smooth
All choices are correct
Which type of muscle tissue is multinucleate?
Smooth
Cardiac
Skeletal
All types are multinucleate
Which type of muscle tissue contains intercalated discs?
Smooth
Skeletal
Cardiac
All have intercalated discs
The purpose of an intercalated disc is to
To create more proteins for repair
To connect the origin and insertion
allow the heart beat to stay synced
To allow for voluntary control
The reason skeletal muscle is multinucleate is so it can
have more energy
make more protein
contract really fast
be straited
The muscle the surrounds the eye is the
zygomatic
frontalis
orbicularis oculi
orbicularis oris
The cheekbone muscles are called
Temporalis
Nasalis
Zygomatic
Masseter
The muscle that opens and closes your mouth is the
Masseter
Zygomatic
Nasalis
Temporalis
The muscle around your mouth is the
Orbicularis oris
Orbicularis oculi
Corrugator
Platysma
What is the long skinny muscle in the neck?
Platysma
Corrugator
Mentalis
Sternocleidomastoid
If you can wiggle your ears, which muscle is most likely responsible?
Mentalis
Temporalis
Procerus
Nasalis
Which would refer a muscle running at an angle?
brevis
oblique
transverse
rectus
Which refers to the less moveable attachment site of a muscle?
insertion
flexor
rectus
origin
Muscle movement away from the body is called
adduction
longus
abduction
pronation
The shoulder muscle is called the
pectoralis major
biceps brachii
rectus abdominus
deltoid
