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Muscular System Review

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 13mins

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Class
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1.

Which of these is NOT a major task of the muscular system?

a)

Movement for your body

b)

Maintaining posture

c)

Heat production for the body

d)

Making red blood cells

2.

Which of the following words means 'the ability to recoil or bounce back to the original shape'?

a)

excitability

b)

extensibility

c)

contractability

d)

elasticity

3.

Which type of muscle is involuntary and makes up many of your internal organs?

a)

skeletal

b)

gastrointestinal

c)

smooth

d)

cardiac

4.

Which type of muscle(s) is/are striated?

a)

skeletal

b)

smooth

c)

cardiac

d)

extremity

5.

Which membrane covers an individual muscle fiber?

a)

endomysium

b)

epimysium

c)

perimysium

6.

Your gastrocnemius and soleus work together to flex your calf muscle. If one of them is the prime mover, then the other muscle is the __________.

a)

antagonist

b)

tendon

c)

agonist

d)

synergist

7.

What are the two types of myofilaments?

a)

calcium & sodium

b)

actin & myosin

c)

troponin & tropomyosin

d)

sarcomere & sarcolemma

8.

What attaches muscle to bone?

a)

ligaments

b)

sliding filaments

c)

tendons

d)

sarcomeres

9.

Which two structures block the active site on an actin filament?

a)

z-line & the m-line

b)

troponin & tropomyosin

c)

calcium & myosin

d)

actin & perimysium

10.

The ______________ separate one sarcomere from another.

a)

cross bridges

b)

M-lines

c)

Z-lines

d)

active sites

11.

When myosin heads make a cross bridge and bend pulling the actin myofilament toward the center of the sarcomere, it is called the ________________.

a)

power stroke

b)

return stroke

c)

neuromuscular junction

d)

ATP contraction

12.

The deltoid is attached to the clavicle and the humerus. Which one of these points is the insertion?

a)

clavicle

b)

humerus

c)

neither, the deltoid doesn't have an insertion

13.

When you do sit-ups, your rectus abdominus is the _________________ and the latissimus dorsi is the ________________.

a)

insertion; origin

b)

antagonist; prime mover

c)

origin; insertion

d)

prime mover; antagonist

14.

What is the middle of the muscle called?

a)

belly

b)

insertion

c)

origin

d)

tendon

15.

When you become out of breath and your muscles begin to burn during a workout, this is caused by

a)

lack of calcium

b)

lack of oxygen

c)

lack of water

d)

lack of acetylcholine

16.

During rigor mortis, __________ floods the muscle fibers but a lack of ____________ prevents them from detaching.

a)

Calcium, ATP

b)

oxygen, ATP

c)

ATP, Calcium

d)

ATP, oxygen

17.

Muscles are made of bundles upon bundles of fibers. Which is the correct order from smallest to largest in this organizational structure of a muscle? (fascicle, muscle fiber, myofibril, muscle)

4 lines
18.

Do fast-twitch or slow-twitch muscle fibers have more blood vessels and mitochondria?

a)

fast-twitch

b)

slow-twitch

c)

they both have the same amount

d)

it depends on the location of the muscle

19.

This membrane covers each muscle fiber and conducts impulses.

a)

sarcoplasmic reticulum

b)

epimysium

c)

perimysium

d)

endomysium

20.

This molecule comes in from a nerve cell to remove molecules blocking active sites.

a)

oxygen

b)

sodium

c)

carbon dioxide

d)

calcium