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Exam 3- Muscular System

Total questions: 59

Worksheet time: 30mins

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Class
Date
1.

What actually does the shortening during contraction?

a)

actin

b)

myosin

c)

muscle fiber

d)

sarcomere

2.

What happens to the filaments in accordance with the sliding filament theory?

a)

they shorten

b)

they move further away from each other

c)

they do not move

d)

they slide past each other

3.

Which is correctly matched with its definition?

a)

membrane potential- In resting state all cells have voltage across membrane

action potential- change or depolarization conducted along the membrane

b)

action potential- In resting state all cells have voltage across membrane

membrane potential- change or depolarization conducted along the membrane

4.

What steps must occur in order for a skeletal muscle to contract?

a)

nerve stimulation

b)

an action potential must be generated in sarcolemma

c)

action potential must be propagated along sarcolemma

d)

intracellular calcium levels must rise briefly

5.

What are the parts of the neuromuscular junction?

a)

axon terminal

b)

junctional folds

c)

synaptic cleft

d)

myofilaments

6.

What does the axon terminal have in it?

a)

fluid

b)

synaptic vesicles that contain ACh

c)

calcium, sodium, and potassium

d)

sarcolemma

7.

What receptors are located in the junctional folds of the sarcolemma?

a)

ACh receptors

b)

Na+ receptors

c)

K+ receptors

d)

Ca2+ receptors

8.

When the nerve impulse arrives at the axon terminal, what happens?

a)

the muscle contracts

b)

the action potential travels down the sarcolemma

c)

ACh is released into the synaptic cleft

d)

myofilaments slide past each other

9.

What is end plate potential?

a)

Generation and propagation of an action potential (AP)

b)

reaching threshold

c)

Restoration of resting conditions (resting membrane potential)

d)

Localized depolarization at the NMJ caused by ACh release opening ligands

10.

What does the generation and propagation of an action potential cause?

a)

repolarization

b)

depolarization

c)

hyperpolarization

11.

How is an action potential generated?

a)

when membrane voltage reaches threshold, Na+ voltage-gated channels open

b)

when membrane voltage reaches threshold, K+ voltage-gated channels open

c)

When ACh receptors bind to the action potential

12.

How is an action potential propagated?

a)

the action potential spreads from voltage-gated K+ channel to the next

b)

the action potential spreads from voltage-gated ACh channel to the next

c)

the action potential spreads from voltage-gated Na+ channel to the next

13.

What occurs during repolarization?

a)

Restoration of the resting membrane potential

b)

Generation and propagation of an action potential (AP)

c)

Localized depolarization at the NMJ

d)

i got too tired to make a 4th option :')

14.

What is a refractory period?

a)

muscle fiber cannot be stimulated for a specific amount of time

b)

muscle fiber can be stimulated for a specific amount of time

c)

the amount of time depolarization takes

d)

the amount of time it takes to reach threshold

15.

What must occur so repolarization can begin?

a)

Na+ channels close

b)

K+ channels open

c)

Na+K+ Pump continue to pump to help restore resting conditions

d)

ACh must be released onto sarcolemma

16.

What occurs in excitation-contraction coupling?

a)

Calcium binds to troponin

b)

AP moves down T tubules to voltage sensitive proteins on SR

c)

SR releases calcium

d)

Calcium binds to tropomyosin

17.

What happens when the neural impulse stops?

a)

calcium is transported back to SR by ATP

b)

tropomyosin and troponin move back into original positions

c)

thin filament slides back into relaxed position

d)

membrane potential is re-established by ion pumps along T-tubules

e)

the membrane depolarizes

18.

What is the force exerted on the load or object to be moved?

a)

isometric contraction

b)

isotonic contraction

c)

muscle tension

d)

motor unit

19.

Match Isometric and isotonic contraction with their correct definitions?

a)

isotonic- muscles shorten bc muscle tension exceeds load, movement occurs

b)

isometric- no shortening; muscle tension increases but does not move load

c)

isometric- muscles shorten bc muscle tension exceeds load, movement occurs

d)

isotonic- no shortening; muscle tension increases but does not move load

20.

What consists of the motor neuron and all muscle fibers?

a)

sarcomere

b)

motor unit

c)

recruitment

d)

load

21.

What is the simplest contraction resulting from a muscle fiber’s response to a single action potential from motor neuron?

a)

muscle twitch

b)

muscle contraction

c)

wave summation

d)

temporal summation

22.

What phase of the muscle twitch has no tension and is the events of excitation-contraction coupling?

a)

period of relaxation

b)

period of contraction

c)

latent period

d)

what even is that

23.

What phase of a muscle twitch sees tension increase as the cross bridges forming?

a)

period of relaxation

b)

period of contraction

c)

latent period

24.

What phase of a muscle twitch sees tension decline back to 0 because calcium reenters the SR?

a)

period of relaxation

b)

period of contraction

c)

latent period

25.

What principle states stimulated muscles fibers contract completely, there are no particle contractions?

a)

wave summation

b)

all or none principle

c)

temporal summation

d)

recruitment principle

26.

What results if 2 stimuli are received by a muscle in rapid succession?

a)

unfused tetanus

b)

fused tetanus

c)

wave/temporal summation

d)

graded potential

27.

Match fused and unfused tetanus to their correct definitions

a)

fused- looks like one big contraction cannot see a difference in stimuli

b)

unfused- quivering contraction

c)

unfused- looks like one big contraction, cannot see a difference in stimuli

d)

fused- quivering contraction

28.

What occurs when stimulus is sent to more muscle fibers, leading to more precise control?

a)

load

b)

summation

c)

motor unit

d)

recruitment

29.

What motor units are recruited first?

a)

largest

b)

smallest

c)

midsized

d)

whats a motor unit

30.

What types of stimulus are involved in recruitment?

a)

maximal stimulus- strongest, increases maximum contractile force

b)

minimal stimulus- weakest, decreases maximum contractile forces=

c)

subthreshold- stimulus not strong enough to see contraction

d)

threshold- strong enough to cause observable contraction

31.

All of the following are functions of ATP in the muscle fiber EXCEPT

a)

pump calcium back into SR

b)

move and detach cross bridges

c)

to force the muscle to contract

d)

Pump Na+ out of and K+ back into cell after excitation-contraction coupling

32.

Which pathway does not require oxygen, works faster but is less effective and forms lactic acid?

a)

aerobic

b)

anaerobic

33.

Which pathway requires oxygen, works slower but is more effective?

a)

aerobic

b)

anaerobic

34.

What is the physiological inability to contract despite continued stimulation?

a)

load

b)

recruitment

c)

fatigue

d)

tone

35.

What are the factors of muscle contraction?

a)

number of fibers stimulated

b)

relative fiber size

c)

frequency of stimulation

d)

degree of muscle stretch

36.

Velocity and duration of contraction depend on what

a)

muscle fiber type

b)

load

c)

recruitment

d)

genetics

37.

What muscle fiber has high oxygen storage and slow ATP uses, very resistant to fatigue, low intensity endurance?

a)

fast oxidative fibers

b)

fast glycolytic fibers

c)

slow oxidative fibers

d)

slow glycolytic fibers

38.

What muscle fiber has high oxygen storage but fast ATP use, medium resistance to fatigue, fit for jogging or sprinting?

a)

fast oxidative fibers

b)

fast glycolytic fibers

c)

slow oxidative fibers

d)

slow glycolytic fibers

39.

Which fibers produce ATP anaerobically, easily fatigued, used for intense powerful movements (short bursts)?

a)

fast oxidative fibers

b)

fast glycolytic fibers

c)

slow oxidative fibers

d)

slow glycolytic fibers

40.

Aerobic exercise leads to increased

a)

myoglobin synthesis

b)

# of mitochondria

c)

muscle fatigue

d)

muscle capillaries

41.

Resistance exercise like weightlifting causes

a)

muscle hypertrophy

b)

muscle atrophy

c)

increase in breathing rate

d)

increase in resting heart rate

42.

Which of the following is correctly ordered smallest to largest?

a)

myofibril, sarcomere, fascicle, fiber, muscle

b)

myofilament, sarcomere, myofibril, fiber, fascicle, muscle

c)

myofilament, fascicle, myofibril, fiber, sarcomere, muscle

d)

muscle, fascicle, fiber, myofibril, sarcomere, myofilament

43.

Which type of muscle is voluntary and striated?

a)

cardiac

b)

smooth

c)

hard

d)

skeletal

44.

Where can the perimysium be found?

a)

surrounding fascicles

b)

surrounding the whole muscle

c)

surrounding myofilaments

d)

surrounding the sarcomere

45.

What stores oxygen and gives muscles their red pigment?

a)

hemoglobin

b)

myoglobin

c)

carotene

d)

sarcoplasmic reticulum

46.

What is the function of the sarcoplasmic reticulum?

a)

store potassium

b)

store sodium

c)

store calcium

d)

store ACh

47.

What must be released from the axon terminal in order to generate the end plate potential?

a)

Na+

b)

K+

c)

ACh

d)

Ca+

48.

What is end plate potential?

a)

a local depolarization of the neuromuscular junction

b)

a full depolarization

c)

hyperpolarization

d)

repolarization

49.

What channels are open during depolarization?

a)

K+

b)

Cl+

c)

Na+

d)

ACh

50.

What must bind to troponin to move tropomyosin off of the binding sites?

a)

Ca+

b)

Na+

c)

K+

d)

Cl-

51.

What is the all or none principle?

a)

only partial contractions, never full ones

b)

the muscles always are allowed to twitch

c)

all muscles are allowed to contract, or none of them are

d)

all muscle fibers contract completely, or not at all

52.

A quivering contraction would be...

a)

complete tetanus

b)

fused tetanus

c)

unfused tetanus

d)

not wave summation

53.

Which of the following does not influence velocity and duration of a contraction?

a)

muscle fiber type

b)

recruitment

c)

load

d)

wave summation

54.

Where is calcium being released from during excitation-contraction coupling?

a)

sarcolemma

b)

sarcomere

c)

sarcoplasmic reticulum

d)

sarcoplasm

55.

What is a fascicle?

a)

a bundle of muscle fibers

b)

the surrounding portion of a whole muscle

c)

a muscle cell

d)

the structure providing nutrients to muscles

56.

Which of the following is the correct order of the connective tissue sheaths?

a)

epimysium -> perimysium -> endomysium

b)

perimysium -> epimysium -> endomysium

c)

endomysium -> perimysium -> epimysium

d)

epimysium -> endomysium -> perimysium

57.

Which muscle attachment is the attachment on the moveable bone?

a)

origin

b)

insertion

58.

Tendons and aponeurosis' are examples of what type of attachment

a)

direct

b)

indirect

59.

What is the action of Z-discs during contraction?

a)

shorten

b)

disappear

c)

move closer to each other

d)

get pulled towards the M-line