WorksheetsMuscles Part 1 Practice
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 9mins
A patient who has been bedridden for several weeks begins to develop a curved spine and difficulty sitting upright. Which muscular function is MOST directly affected?
Movement
Thermoregulation
Maintaining posture and stability
Moving substances through the body
A runner begins shivering after stopping exercise in cold weather. Which muscle function is responsible for helping maintain body temperature?
Thermoregulation
Movement
Enables breathing to cycle warm blood
Maintain posture and stability
You eat Mcdonalds Value meal for dinner. Food continues to move through the digestive tract even while a person is asleep. Which muscle function allows this to occur?
Thermoregulation
Movement through digestion
Movement through elimination
Posture & Stability
A patient with severe damage to their diaphragm would have the greatest difficulty with which function?
Movement through circulation
Posture & Stability
Respiration
Thermoregulation
Which example BEST demonstrates muscles working to maintain stability rather than create movement?
Which muscle tissue is responsible for pumping blood throughout the body?
A patient cannot consciously control the muscles that regulate the diameter of their blood vessels. Which type of muscle tissue is involved?
Which scenario BEST represents skeletal muscle activity?
Sweating after exercise
Pumping blood throughout body
Digesting food
Writing with a pencil
A muscle named the temporalis is most likely named based on which characteristic?
Action
Size
Shape
Location
Which muscle name MOST clearly indicates its shape?
Deltoid
Biceps
Tibialis anterior
Extensor digitorum
A muscle named adductor longus includes information about:
Shape and direction
Location and size
Action and size
Action and location
What does the term “flexor” in a muscle name tell you?
Where the muscle is located
The muscle's size
The muscle's action
The direction of the fibers
A muscle named transversus abdominis runs:
Match the muscle tissue to its control
Cardiac
Involuntary
Smooth
Involuntary
Skeletal
Voluntary
Damage to which muscle tissue would MOST directly affect respiration AND urination?
Skeletal
Smooth
Cardiac
Involuntary
Where is skeletal muscle found?
Skeletal muscle is found in the bones.
