Types of Muscles
This type of muscle is attached to bones and allows voluntary movement.
👉 What is skeletal muscle?
Another name for muscle cells.
👉 What are muscle fibers (or myocytes)?
Muscles work in pairs to create this.
👉 What is movement?
Muscle growth from exercise is called this.
👉 What is hypertrophy?
Muscles and bones working together are called this system.
👉 What is the musculoskeletal system?
This muscle type is found in the heart.
👉 What is cardiac muscle?
The energy source muscles use to contract.
👉 What is ATP?
Skeletal muscles help maintain this and keep you upright.
👉 What is posture?
Muscle shrinking due to lack of use is called this.
👉 What is atrophy?
Muscles are attached to bones by these.
👉 What are tendons?
This muscle type controls organs like the stomach and intestines.
👉 What is smooth muscle?
Muscle cells shorten during this process.
👉 What is contraction?
Wave-like contractions that move food through the digestive system.
👉 What is peristalsis?
Loss of muscle mass due to aging.
👉 What is sarcopenia?
This system provides the structure muscles pull on.
👉 What is the skeletal system?
This type of muscle works without you thinking about it.
👉 What is involuntary muscle?
Protein filaments do this to cause contraction.
👉 What is slide past each other?
This system sends signals to muscles to contract.
👉 What is the nervous system?
Muscle size determines this.
👉 What is strength?
Motor neurons are part of this system.
👉 What is the nervous system?
These two muscle types are involuntary.
👉 What are smooth and cardiac muscles?
The connection point between a motor neuron and a muscle.
👉 What is the neuromuscular junction?
This hormone increases heart rate during stress.
👉 What is adrenaline?
During hypertrophy and atrophy, this stays the same.
👉 What is the number of muscle fibers?
This system moves blood when the heart contracts.
👉 What is the cardiovascular system?