The Muscular System Trivia Quiz
- 1.Called striated or voluntary muscle, contractions can be voluntarily controlled
- A.
Insertion
- B.
Muscle Tissue
- C.
Cardiac Muscle
- D.
Skeletal Muscle
- 2.Found in walls of hollow visceral structures such as digestive tract, blood vessels, and ureters, contractions not under voluntary control, movement caused by contractions is involuntary.
- A.
Visceral Muscle (smooth)
- B.
Deep Fascia
- C.
Sarcolemma
- D.
Sarcoplasm
- 3.Cells that are bound together by dense fibrous connective tissue.
- A.
Myoglobin
- B.
Aponeurosis
- C.
Tendon
- D.
Muscle Fibers
- 4.A narrow band of fibrous connective tissue that attaches a muscle to a bone.
- A.
Muscle Fiber
- B.
Tetanic Contraction
- C.
Tendon
- D.
Sarcomere
- 5.A sustained muscle contraction.
- A.
Motor unit
- B.
Muscle Tone
- C.
Tetanic Contraction
- D.
Antagonist
- 6.The attachment of a muscle that remains fixed when the muscle contracts
- A.
Tendons
- B.
Origin
- C.
Insertion
- D.
Sarcolemma
- 7.Connective tissue covering a muscle
- A.
Myosin filaments
- B.
Sarcoplasm
- C.
Sarcomere
- D.
Deep Fascia
- 8.Small synovial lined sacs containing a small amount of synovial fluid, located between some tendons and underlying bones.
- A.
Motor Unit
- B.
Bursae
- C.
Fibers
- D.
Neuromuscular
- 9.Contain thick myofilaments and thin myofilaments
- A.
Fibers
- B.
Cartilage
- C.
Memberous layer
- D.
Synovial membrane
- 10.Separatede from each other by dark bands called Z lines
- A.
Actin filament
- B.
Sarcomere
- C.
Motor end plates
- D.
Sliding filament model
- 11.Slide past each other as a muscle contracts
- A.
Myofilaments
- B.
Creatine Phosphate
- C.
Hemoglobin
- D.
Myoglobin
- 12.Enables us to maintain body position, no movement of body parts.
- A.
Contractions
- B.
Tendons
- C.
Tonic Contractions
- D.
Oxygen Debt
- 13.The specialized nerve that transmits an impulse to a muscle, causing contraction
- A.
Fatigue
- B.
Motor Neuron
- C.
Summation
- D.
Motor Unit
- 14.The specialized point of contact between a nerve ending and the muscle fiber it innervates
- A.
Motor Unit
- B.
Neurotransmitter junction
- C.
Neuron
- D.
Threshold stimulus
- 15.The combination of a motor neuron with the muscle cell or cells it innervates
- A.
Tetanic contraction
- B.
Motor unit
- C.
Summation
- D.
Maximal stimulus
- 16.The minimal level of stimulation required to cause a muscle fiber to contract
- A.
Maximal stimulus
- B.
Threshold stimulus
- C.
Twitch
- D.
Tetanic
- 17.Contractions are laboratory phenomena and do not play as significant role in normal muscular activity.
- A.
Tetanic
- B.
Twitch
- C.
Isotonic
- D.
Isometric
- 18.Contractions are sustained and steady muscular contractions caused by a series of stimuli bombarding a muscle in rapid succession.
- A.
Tetanic
- B.
Isotonic
- C.
Isometric
- D.
Twitch
- 19.Contraction of a muscle that produces movement at a joint
- A.
Orientation fibers
- B.
Isometric
- C.
Isotonic
- D.
Function
- 20.Muscle contractions that do not produce movement
- A.
Origin
- B.
Insertion
- C.
Isometric
- D.
Occipitalis
- 21.Movement of a part toward the midline of the body
- A.
Rotation
- B.
Abduction
- C.
Adduction
- D.
Extension
- 22.Elevation of the dorsum or top of the foot
- A.
Supination
- B.
Pronation
- C.
Plantar Flexion
- D.
Dorsiflexion
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