Chapter 10

Question 1

What are the 3 types of muscle tissue?

Answer 1

Skeletal, cardiac, and smooth

Question 2

What are the functions of muscle tissue?

Answer 2

Facilitates movement, open and close body passageways, thermoregulation, maintain posture and support for joints

Question 3

Located throughout the body, most attach to bones

Answer 3

Skeletal muscle

Question 4

What’s the function of skeletal muscle?

Answer 4

Voluntary movement

Question 5

Located in GI tract, urinary tract, and blood vessels

Answer 5

Smooth muscle

Question 6

What’s the function of smooth muscle?

Answer 6

Control movement of material in body and under involuntary control

Question 7

Located in muscle of heart

Answer 7

Cardiac muscle

Question 8

What’s the function of cardiac muscle?

Answer 8

Contracts heart to pump blood

Question 9

Epi (upon) + mysium (muscle), connective tissue surrounds whole muscle

Answer 9

Epimysium

Question 10

Peri (around) + mysium (muscle), connective tissue surrounds fassicles

Answer 10

Perimysium

Question 11

Endo (within) + mysium (muscle), connective tissue surrounds muscle fibers

Answer 11

Endomysium

Question 12

Myrofibrils are organelles containing myofilaments in repeating contractile units

Answer 12

Sarcomeres

Question 13

Thick filament in sarcomeres

Answer 13

Myosin

Question 14

Thin filament in sarcomeres

Answer 14

Actin

Question 15

Linear contraction achieved by thick and thin myofilaments sliding against each other

Answer 15

Contractile mechanism