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Muscle Contractions

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 16mins

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Class
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1.

Name the following in order from largest to smallest:

a)

muscle, muscle fascicle, muscle cell, myofibril, filaments

b)

muscle, muscle fascicle, muscle cell, filaments, myofibril

c)

muscle, muscle cell, muscle fascicle, myofibril, filaments

d)

muscle, muscle cell, muscle fascicle, filaments, myofibril

2.

What is the length between Z-lines of an actin molecule called?

a)

fascicle

b)

sarcomere

c)

myosin binding site

d)

sarcoplasmic length

3.

What must occur first before a muscle can contract?

a)

An action potential must develop as energy/nutrients is gained from the digestive system

b)

An action potential must travel to the muscle through the circulatory system

c)

An action potential must enter the body through the respiratory system

d)

An action potential must be sent through neurons in the nervous system

4.

What neurotransmitter is used at the neuromuscular junction that sends a signal from the motor neuron to the skeletal muscle?

a)

Glutamate

b)

Acetylcholine

c)

Norepinephrine

d)

Dopamine

5.

What is the function of acetylcholine?

a)

ACh binds to receptors on the sarcolemma and opens ion channels

b)

ACh binds to receptors on the sarcolemma and closes ion channels

c)

ACh binds to ion channels and open them

d)

ACh binds to ion channels and closes them

6.

What ions are transported by the activated ion channel in muscle cells?

a)

Sodium ions rush out of the cell, while potassium ions rush into the cell

b)

Calcium ions rush out of the cell, while potassium ions rush into the cell

c)

Sodium ions rush into the cell, while potassium ions rush out of the cell

d)

Calcium ions rush into the cell, while potassium ions rush out of the cell

7.

What is the purpose of the sodium potassium ion channel?

a)

Create an action potential

b)

Cause contraction

c)

Create a membrane potential

d)

Cause the release of ATP

8.

What binds to the active site on actin?

a)

Actin

b)

Myosin

c)

Troponin

d)

Tropomyosin

9.

What is a cross-bridge?

a)

When troponin and tropomyosin undergo a shape change

b)

When the active site of actin is revealed

c)

When the myosin heads bind to the actin active site

d)

When the actin filaments slide past the myosin filaments

10.

Which ways do muscles get their energy from?

a)

Creatine Phosphate

b)

Anaerobic Respiration

c)

Kreb Cycle

d)

Aerobic Respiration

11.

Muscles move bones by

a)

pushing

b)

pulling

c)

both pushing and pulling

12.

A motor unit is a motor neuron together with __________.

a)

a motor unit.

b)

all the muscle fibers it controls

c)

one muscle fiber

d)

the muscle

13.

Reorder the following

a)

Acetylcholine is bounds to the muscle cells.

b)

Calcium is released.

c)

Calcium binds to troponin.

d)

Troponin and tropomyosin move to free actin.

e)

Myosin heads use ATP to bind and move actin.

1)
2)
3)
4)
5)
14.

Match the following

a)

skeletal muscle

1.

voluntary and striated

b)

smooth muscle

2.

involuntary and no striations

c)

cardiac muscle

3.

involuntary and striated

15.
A sarcomere is
a)
A protein filament or fiber
b)
The basic contractile unit of muscle contraction
c)
An organelle
d)
An organ
16.

The epimysium covers

a)

the entire muscle

b)

the fascicle

c)

the muscle fiber

d)

the myofibril

17.

Which connective tissue surrounds the fascicle?

a)

epimysium

b)

perimysium

c)

sarcolemma

d)

endomysium

18.
Connective tissue that attaches muscle to bone.
a)
Epimysium
b)
Tendon
c)
Perimysium
d)
sarcolemma