Muscular System Flashcards
What is the difference between voluntary and involuntary muscles?
Voluntary- You are conscious of the movement
Involuntary- Unconscious of the movement
What are skeletal muscles?
Muscles attached to bones by tendons, striated
Why are skeletal muscles sometimes know as striated muscles?
They look like they have tiny stripes going around them.
What are smooth muscles? Where are they found? V or I? How do they react or tire?
Non-striated muscles
Found usually around organs
V
Food gets squeezed into the stomach where it dissolves in stomach acid.
What are cardiac muscles? Where are they found? V or I? How do they react or tire?
Heart
Near the lungs, inside the rib-cage
V
The heart does not tire because if it tired you would not be lining right now.
What are heartbeats?
The heart contracting and relaxing
What are two actions that muscles display? How do they work in pairs?
Contracting and relaxing moves muscles that work together.
