Muscular System 1
What type of muscle is voluntary and attached to bones?
What is skeletal muscle.
What type of muscle is found in internal organs and is involuntary?
What is smooth muscle.
What is the only type of muscle found in the heart?
What is cardiac muscle.
Which muscle types have striations?
Skeletal and cardiac
where is the deltoid? point
above bicep
What is the main function of the muscular system?
What is movement, posture, and stability.
What connects muscles to bones?
What are tendons.
Which muscle groups are responsible for bending the arm?
What are biceps and triceps
What is the name of the receptors that carry signals through the muscle fiber?
What is Ach
What is the most used muscle in the human body?
What are the eye muscles.
What is an antagonist muscle?
A muscle that relaxes during movement.
What is the name of the largest muscle in the human body?
What is gluteus maximus.
What is a sudden, involuntary muscle contraction called?
What is a muscle cramp.
What are the 5 functions of the muscular system
generate heat, movement, posture, stability, circulation
What is the condition that results in sudden tearing of muscle fibers during exertion; also referred to as a pulled muscle?
What is a strain.
What is an agonist muscle?
A muscle that contracts during movement
What is the scientific term for a muscle cell?
What is muscle fiber.
Where are the external obliques? point
side of abs
What energy molecule is required for muscle contraction?
What is ATP
Which muscle in the body never stops working from birth to death?
What is the heart (cardiac muscle).
Which muscle groups are responsible for extending the leg at the knee?
What is the quads and hamstring?
Which protein is responsible for muscle contraction?
Myosin and Actin
What is a condition where muscles weaken due to genetic defects?
What is muscular dystrophy.
Where is the gastrocnemius? point
back of leg
What is the functions of calcium in the sliding filament theory?