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Muscular system

Total questions: 28

Worksheet time: 19mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The muscular system is divided into what two parts?

a)

Axial & appendicular

b)

Muscles & tissues

c)

Axial & Connective tissue

d)

Appendicular & irritability

2.

Over___muscles make up the muscular system

a)

800

b)

150

c)

700

d)

450

3.

Select the correct function of the axial

a)

It stores energy and produces proteins

b)

Supports and moves limbs

c)

Supports and produces energy

d)

Supports and positions the skeleton

4.

___ is the ability to respond to a stimulus such as a nerve impulse

a)

Extensibility

b)

Elasticity

c)

Contractibility

d)

Excitability

5.

Muscles are made up of bundles of___, and are held together by___

(a)  

6.

____is when muscle fibers shorten and become thick (this causes movement)

a)

Axial

b)

Contractibility

c)

Extensibility

d)

Excitability

7.

___is the ability to be stretched

a)

Elasticity

b)

adduction

c)

appendicular

d)

Extensibility

8.

___allows the muscle to return to its original shape after it has contracted or stretched.

a)

Elasticity

b)

connective tissue

c)

Muscle

d)

Irritability

9.

What are the 3 main types of muscles

(a)  

10.

Select all the apply for skeletal muscle

a)

Voluntary

b)

Involuntary

c)

Attached to bones

d)

Attached to internal organs

e)

Produces heat and energy

11.

Select all that apply to smooth/visceral muscles

a)

Voluntary

b)

Involuntary

c)

Found attached to bone

d)

Found in the heart

e)

Found in internal organs

12.

Another name for smooth muscle?

(a)  

13.

Select all that apply for cardiac muscles

a)

Voluntary

b)

Involuntary

c)

Found in heart

d)

Found in internal organs

e)

Contracts to circulate blood

14.

What attaches the muscles to bones

(a)  

15.

What is a tough sheet like membrane that covers and protects the tissue?

(a)  

16.

What does the image represent

a)

Abduction

b)

Adduction

c)

Flextion

d)

Extension

17.

What does the image represent

a)

Flextion

b)

Abduction

c)

Adduction

d)

Extension

18.

____ is when you turn a body part around its own axis (like turning the head side to side)

a)

Circulation

b)

Rotation

c)

Angle

d)

Fixtating

19.

What does the image represent

a)

Extension

b)

Reflex

c)

Flexing

d)

Flextion

20.

___ is when you move one end of a body part in a circle while the other remains stationary (like swing your arm in a circle).

a)

Reflex

b)

Flextion

c)

Circumducation

d)

Rotation

21.

This image represents what?

a)

Abduction

b)

Adduction

c)

Extension

d)

Flextion

22.

End of body part that does not move

(a)  

23.

End of body part that moves when muscles contract

(a)  

24.

The movement of turning the foot backwards towards your body

a)

Dorsiflextion

b)

flextion

c)

Plantar flextion

d)

Contract

25.

The movement of turning your foot down towards the floor

a)

Dorsiflextion

b)

Plantar flextion

c)

Flextion

d)

Dorsizyto

26.

The state of partial contraction is called

(a)  

27.

Another term for the "wasting away" of muscles

a)

Spasms

b)

Intersite

c)

Tripophy

d)

Atrophy

28.

Term for severe tightening of a muscle

a)

Excertive

b)

contractive

c)

Concentrae

d)

Externtion