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WorksheetsMuscular System Review
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which of these is NOT a major task of the muscular system?
Movement for your body
Maintaining posture
Heat production for the body
Making red blood cells
Which of the following words means 'the ability to recoil or bounce back to the original shape'?
excitability
extensibility
contractability
elasticity
Which type of muscle is involuntary and makes up many of your internal organs?
skeletal
gastrointestinal
smooth
cardiac
Which type of muscle(s) is/are striated?
skeletal
smooth
cardiac
extremity
Which membrane covers an individual muscle fiber?
endomysium
epimysium
perimysium
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 __________.
antagonist
tendon
agonist
synergist
What are the two types of myofilaments?
calcium & sodium
actin & myosin
troponin & tropomyosin
sarcomere & sarcolemma
What attaches muscle to bone?
ligaments
sliding filaments
tendons
sarcomeres
Which two structures block the active site on an actin filament?
z-line & the m-line
troponin & tropomyosin
calcium & myosin
actin & perimysium
The ______________ separate one sarcomere from another.
cross bridges
M-lines
Z-lines
active sites
When myosin heads make a cross bridge and bend pulling the actin myofilament toward the center of the sarcomere, it is called the ________________.
power stroke
return stroke
neuromuscular junction
ATP contraction
The deltoid is attached to the clavicle and the humerus. Which one of these points is the insertion?
clavicle
humerus
neither, the deltoid doesn't have an insertion
When you do sit-ups, your rectus abdominus is the _________________ and the latissimus dorsi is the ________________.
insertion; origin
antagonist; prime mover
origin; insertion
prime mover; antagonist
What is the middle of the muscle called?
belly
insertion
origin
tendon
When you become out of breath and your muscles begin to burn during a workout, this is caused by
lack of calcium
lack of oxygen
lack of water
lack of acetylcholine
During rigor mortis, __________ floods the muscle fibers but a lack of ____________ prevents them from detaching.
Calcium, ATP
oxygen, ATP
ATP, Calcium
ATP, oxygen
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)
Do fast-twitch or slow-twitch muscle fibers have more blood vessels and mitochondria?
fast-twitch
slow-twitch
they both have the same amount
it depends on the location of the muscle
This membrane covers each muscle fiber and conducts impulses.
sarcoplasmic reticulum
epimysium
perimysium
endomysium
This molecule comes in from a nerve cell to remove molecules blocking active sites.
oxygen
sodium
carbon dioxide
calcium
