3 Muscle Types

Question 1

Location of skeletal muscle

Answer 1

Attached to bones

Question 2

Location of smooth muscle

Answer 2

Walls of hollow organs, blood vessels and glands

Question 3

Location of cardiac muscle

Answer 3

Heart

Question 4

Cell shape of skeletal muscle

Answer 4

Long, cylindrical

Question 5

Cell shape of smooth muscle

Answer 5

Spindle-shaped

Question 6

Cell shape of cardiac muscle

Answer 6

Branched, cylindrical

Question 7

Nucleus of skeletal muscle

Answer 7

Multiple, peripherally located

Question 8

Nucleus of smooth and cardiac muscle

Answer 8

Single, centrally located

Question 9

Special cell to cell attachments of skeletal muscle

Answer 9

None

Question 10

Special cell to cell attachments of smooth muscle

Answer 10

Gap junctions join smooth muscle cells together

Question 11

Special cell to cell attachments of cardiac muscle

Answer 11

Intercalated discs

Question 12

Do skeletal and cardiac muscle have striations?

Answer 12

Yes

Question 13

Do smooth muscles have striations?

Answer 13

No

Question 14

Are skeletal muscle autorhythmic?

Answer 14

No

Question 15

Are smooth muscle autorhythmic?

Answer 15

Some

Question 16

Are cardiac muscle autorhythmic?

Answer 16

Yes

Question 17

Control of skeletal muscle

Answer 17

Voluntarily and involuntarily (reflexes)

Question 18

Control of smooth and cardiac muscle

Answer 18

Involuntarily

Question 19

Control of smooth and cardiac muscle

Answer 19

Involuntarily

Question 20

Function of skeletal muscle

Answer 20

Body movement

Question 21

Function of smooth muscle

Answer 21

Move food through digestive tract, empty urinary bladder, regulate blood vessel diameter, contract gland ducts

Question 22

Function of cardiac muscle

Answer 22

Pumping blood; contraction is the major force to propel blood through blood vessels