Muscles Unit

Type of muscle fibers only found in the heart.

• Skeletal Muscles
• Smooth Muscle
• Cardiac Muscle

Type of muscles found in blood vessels and the digestive tract

• Skeletal Muscle
• Smooth Muscle
• Cardiac Muscle

Type of muscle that is attached to bones

• Skeletal Muscle
• Smooth Muscle
• Cardiac Muscle

This type of muscle helps control the diameter of blood vessels

• Skeletal Muscle
• Smooth Muscle
• Cardiac Muscle

This type of muscle is the only one that is considered voluntary muscle

• Skeletal Muscle
• Smooth Muscle
• Cardiac Muscle

One of the four common characteristics of muscle in which the muscles shorten

• Elasticity
• Contractibility
• Extensibility
• Excitability

A muscles ability to be stretched is considered to be ___________, and is one of the four characteristics of muscle

• Elasticity
• Contractibility
• Extensibility
• Excitability

The part of the skeletal muscle that is attached to a fixed structure that does not move when the muscle contracts to cause movement

• Origin
• Insertion
• Belly

The part of the skeletal muscle that is attached the moveable part of the body

• Origin
• Insertion
• Belly

The central part of the skeletal muscle

• Origin
• Insertion
• Belly