KIN 2500 Exam 4 Thompson Study
Guide Questions and Actual Answers
2025-2026 Edition.
Chapter 10 - Answer Muscular Tissue
What are the types of muscular tissue? - Answer Skeletal, cardiac, smooth
What is the location of skeletal muscle? - Answer Attached to skeleton and fascia throughout
the body
What muscle tissue is long, unbranched, striated with multiple nuclei? - Answer Skeletal
muscle
What muscle tissue is voluntary? - Answer Skeletal
What is the location of cardiac muscle? - Answer Heart and associated vessels
What muscle tissue is short, branched, striated, single nucleus, and intercalated discs? - Answer
Cardiac
What muscle tissue has squiggly lines that allow it to contract at the same time? - Answer
Cardiac
What muscle tissue is involuntary? - Answer Smooth and cardiac
What is the location of smooth muscle? - Answer Viscera (walls and linings of organs), vessels,
and skin
What muscle tissue is small, has spindles, unstriated, with a single nucleus? - Answer Smooth
What muscle tissue produces body movements and stabilizes body positions? - Answer
Skeletal
,What are the functions of muscular tissue? - Answer 1. Producing body movements
2. Stabilizing body positions
3. Storing and moving substances within the body
4. Generating heat
What are the properties of muscular tissue? - Answer 1. Electrical excitability
2. Contractility
3. Extensibility
4. Elasticity
What is the ability to produce an action potential? - Answer Electrical excitability
What is the ability to shorten and develop tension that will pull on bones? - Answer
Contractility
What changes the muscles shape without damaging it, to a degree? - Answer Extensibility
What can return the muscle to its original shape after being stretched, to a degree? - Answer
Elasticity
What consists of a body (belly) connected by tendons to the skeleton? - Answer Skeletal
muscle bundle
What is dense regular connective tissue that directly adheres into the periosteum of the bone? -
Answer Tendons
What has a bundle or cord like shape? - Answer Tendon
What is a sheet of connective tissue like a tendon that helps muscles spread but muscle doesn't
have to have this? - Answer Aponeuroses
What are groups of skeletal muscle covered by? - Answer Fascia
, What are a group nerves, arteries, and veins? - Answer Neurovascular bundles
What are bundles of muscle fibers? - Answer Fascicles
What is each fascicle covered by? - Answer Perimysium
What is each muscle fiber covered by? - Answer Endomysium
What is parallel to each other within a single fascicle? - Answer Muscle fibers
What forms patterns with respect to the tendons they attach to? - Answer Fascicles
What are the fascicle architectures? - Answer Paralle, fusiform, circular, triangular/convergent,
and pennate
What fascicle pattern goes out in the middle? - Answer Parallel and fusiform
What fascicle pattern is arranged in a circle? - Answer Circular
What fascicle pattern forms an angle? - Answer Pennate
What are the types of pennate? - Answer Unipennate, Bipennate, Multipennate
What fascicle pattern converges to a central point? - Answer Triangler/convergent
What allows more contraction and more force? - Answer Pennation angle
What allows long length and makes force over a greater range of motion? - Answer Parallel
What is the most superficial layer of the muscle? - Answer Epimysium
Guide Questions and Actual Answers
2025-2026 Edition.
Chapter 10 - Answer Muscular Tissue
What are the types of muscular tissue? - Answer Skeletal, cardiac, smooth
What is the location of skeletal muscle? - Answer Attached to skeleton and fascia throughout
the body
What muscle tissue is long, unbranched, striated with multiple nuclei? - Answer Skeletal
muscle
What muscle tissue is voluntary? - Answer Skeletal
What is the location of cardiac muscle? - Answer Heart and associated vessels
What muscle tissue is short, branched, striated, single nucleus, and intercalated discs? - Answer
Cardiac
What muscle tissue has squiggly lines that allow it to contract at the same time? - Answer
Cardiac
What muscle tissue is involuntary? - Answer Smooth and cardiac
What is the location of smooth muscle? - Answer Viscera (walls and linings of organs), vessels,
and skin
What muscle tissue is small, has spindles, unstriated, with a single nucleus? - Answer Smooth
What muscle tissue produces body movements and stabilizes body positions? - Answer
Skeletal
,What are the functions of muscular tissue? - Answer 1. Producing body movements
2. Stabilizing body positions
3. Storing and moving substances within the body
4. Generating heat
What are the properties of muscular tissue? - Answer 1. Electrical excitability
2. Contractility
3. Extensibility
4. Elasticity
What is the ability to produce an action potential? - Answer Electrical excitability
What is the ability to shorten and develop tension that will pull on bones? - Answer
Contractility
What changes the muscles shape without damaging it, to a degree? - Answer Extensibility
What can return the muscle to its original shape after being stretched, to a degree? - Answer
Elasticity
What consists of a body (belly) connected by tendons to the skeleton? - Answer Skeletal
muscle bundle
What is dense regular connective tissue that directly adheres into the periosteum of the bone? -
Answer Tendons
What has a bundle or cord like shape? - Answer Tendon
What is a sheet of connective tissue like a tendon that helps muscles spread but muscle doesn't
have to have this? - Answer Aponeuroses
What are groups of skeletal muscle covered by? - Answer Fascia
, What are a group nerves, arteries, and veins? - Answer Neurovascular bundles
What are bundles of muscle fibers? - Answer Fascicles
What is each fascicle covered by? - Answer Perimysium
What is each muscle fiber covered by? - Answer Endomysium
What is parallel to each other within a single fascicle? - Answer Muscle fibers
What forms patterns with respect to the tendons they attach to? - Answer Fascicles
What are the fascicle architectures? - Answer Paralle, fusiform, circular, triangular/convergent,
and pennate
What fascicle pattern goes out in the middle? - Answer Parallel and fusiform
What fascicle pattern is arranged in a circle? - Answer Circular
What fascicle pattern forms an angle? - Answer Pennate
What are the types of pennate? - Answer Unipennate, Bipennate, Multipennate
What fascicle pattern converges to a central point? - Answer Triangler/convergent
What allows more contraction and more force? - Answer Pennation angle
What allows long length and makes force over a greater range of motion? - Answer Parallel
What is the most superficial layer of the muscle? - Answer Epimysium
