Muscle Tissue

Question 1

Smooth muscle

Answer 1

Location: walls of hollow visceral organs
Airways, stomach bladder and uterus
Structure: muscle fiber and nucleus
Function: involuntary movements and motion moves material through internal organs

Question 2

Skeletal muscle

Answer 2

Location: attached to bones on the or sometimes skin
Structure: muscle fiber, striations, nuclei
Function: moves skeleton, responsible for voluntary body movements, locomotion, and heat production

Question 3

Cardiac muscle

Answer 3

Location: heart wall
Structure: muscle fiber, nucleus, striations, intercalated discs
Function: involuntary contraction and relaxation pumps blood in the heart