Muscular System
What is the main function of the muscular system?
What is:
to produce movement through contraction working with bones and joints.
What is the major function of the respiratory system?
What is gas exchange to supply O2 and remove CO2.
What is to convert food into nutrients and eliminate waste.
Which system provides oxygen for muscle contraction?
What is the respiratory system.
Bones act as what in a lever system?
What is:
levers.
What is the main functional unit of the respiratory system?
What are the two main groups of the digestive system?
What is GI tract and accessory organs.
What is the function of valves in the heart?
Which system delivers nutrients absorbed by the digestive system to the tissues?
What is the circulatory system.
What muscle fiber pattern is most powerful? And why?
What is:
pennate muscle fiber pattern because it has more over muscle fibers
What structure prevents food entering the lungs?
What is the epiglottis
What is the major site of nutrient absorption?
Where does gas exchange occur in the body?
What is capillary beds.
What muscle is crucial for both breathing and separating thoracic/abdominal cavities?
What is the diaphragm.
What are functional types of muscles?
agonist, antagonist, and synergist
What is :
Right - 3
Left 2
What enzyme breaks down sugar?
What is amylase.
What are two circuits of blood flow?
What is pulmonary and systemic circuits.
How do the muscular and skeletal systems interact?
What is muscles pull on bones to create movement.
How are muscle names?
What is by:
location, shape, size, attachments, number of origins, and action
What type of alveolar cell secretes surfactant?
What is Type II alveolar cells.
What is the role of the mesentery?
What is holding organs, fat storage, route for vessels
What is the pacemaker of the heart?
What is the SA node.
How to the digestive and circulatory systems interact?