Muscle tissue

Question 1

smooth tissue

Answer 1

• individual spindle shaped cells
• can contract rhythmically
  - less powerfully than skeletal muscle
• in the skin, the walls of blood vessels
• in digestive and respiratory tracts
• can’t be controlled
  - called involuntary muscle
• don’t have striped
  - called unstriped

Question 2

skeletal muscle

Answer 2

• attached to bones
• moves the skeleton
• has bands of long cells called fibres
• can contract powerfully
  - but tire easily
• can be controlled
  - called voluntary muscle
• fibres form a striped pattern
  - called striped

Question 3

cardiac muscle