Muscular System AES questions with complete solutions 2023/2024 already passed

Muscular System AES Helps with body movement, supports body posture, produces heat, protects vital organs, helps move blood, food, and waste products through the body, opens and closes body openings - correct answer Functions of the muscular system The ability to respond to a stimulus, such as a nerve or hormone. Muscles can be stimulated electrically, mechanically, or chemically. - correct answer Excitability or Irritability The ability to shorten and produce movement when stimulated - correct answer Contractibility The ability to be stretched and lengthened - correct answer Extensibility The ability to return to its original shape after contracting or stretching - correct answer Elasticity Refers to the ability of muscles to be slightly contracted at all times, even when not in use. - correct answer Muscle Tone Three types of muscle - correct answer Cardiac, visceral or smooth, skeletal Forms the walls of the heart. When it contracts caused heart to beat to circulate blood. - correct answer Cardiac Muscle Found in hollow organs, in the walls of blood vessels, and in the eyes. Contracts to produce movement in these organs. - correct answer Visceral or smooth muscle Attached to the bones. Helps produce movement - correct answer Skeletal Muscle Muscles are attached to bones by bands of fibrous tissue which are called... - correct answer Tendons