a.) You’re kept alive and moving by three types of muscle tissue: _______ , _______ , and _______ .
b.) Your smooth muscle tissue is found in the walls of all your hollow visceral organs, like your _______ , and airways, and blood vessels.
Question 2
2.
The heart gets its very own muscle tissue type called _______ , which looks striped and functions involuntarily.
Question 3
3.
The types of muscles you can see and feel are your _______ .
Question 4
4.
Most skeletal muscles attach to your skeleton and create _______ by pulling bones in different directions as they _______ .
Question 5
5.
A skeletal muscle is constructed like a really sturdy piece of rope, made up of tiny, parallel threads called _______ .
Question 6
6.
There are three layers to skeletal muscle; they are (from inside to outside) _______, _______ , and _______ .
Question 7
7.
The myofibrils are made up on many _______ ; each of these has two kinds of myofilaments: _______ and _______ .
Question 8
8.
The _______ is the process of muscle contraction.
Question 9
9.
_______ and _______ work together to block actin.
Question 10
10.
When the action potential travels down a muscle cell's membrane, it triggers the _______ -sensitive proteins linked to calcium channels in the _______ .
Question 11
11.
Troponin will bind with _______ , causing another protein,_______ , to move away from the actin strands and expose the _______ .
Question 12
12.
When a muscle contracts, the _______ will shrink (or shorten).
Question 13
13.
The molecule that allows myosin to bind with and release from the bind sites is _______ .
Question 14
14.
There are approximately _______ muscles in your body.
Question 15
15.
When you look at how the muscular system moves, you have to keep two things in mind: first, muscles never _______ ; they always _______ .
Question 16
16.
The bone that moves is called the muscle’s _______ point, while the bone that doesn’t move is referred to as the muscle’s _______ point.
Question 17
17.
The muscles that are mainly responsible for producing a certain movement are called that motion’s _______ movers or _______ muscles.
Question 18
18.
The antagonists of a movement work in reverse by staying relaxed, stretching, or contracting just enough to keep the prime movers from _______ .
Question 19
19.
A _______ is a group of muscle fibers that all get their signals from the same, single _______ .
Question 20
20.
There are three phases to a muscle twitch, they are: _______ , _______ , and _______ .
Question 21
21.
_______ is when all of the twitches get closer together and then eventually blend into one.
Question 22
22.
Recruitment is also known as _______.
Question 23
23.
If I develop a lot of tension without actually changing the muscle’s length, I’d be experiencing _______ contractions.