Muscular System - NASM CPT ACTUAL
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What are the three types of muscles in the body? - Correct answers✔✔skeletal, cardiac, smooth
Cardiac muscle is what makes up - Correct answers✔✔the heart
Smooth muscle is what makes up - Correct answers✔✔primarily the tissues of internal organs
Skeletal Muscle - Correct answers✔✔The type of muscle tissue that connects to bones and
generates the forces that create movement; most important for a CPT; the primary functions are
to contract and produce movement, support the skeletal system, and assist with homeostasis of
the body by producing heat.
Fascia - Correct answers✔✔Connective tissue that surrounds muscles and bones.
Epimysium - Correct answers✔✔Inner layer of fascia that directly surrounds an entire muscle,
commonly referred to as the "deep fascia."
Fascicles - Correct answers✔✔Largest bundles of fibers within a muscle. Fascicles are
surrounded by perimysium.
Perimysium - Correct answers✔✔Connective tissue surrounding a muscle fascicle (Similar to
how epimysium wraps and contains the whole muscle)
Endomysium - Correct answers✔✔Connective tissue that wraps around individual muscle fibers
within a fascicle.
, Each layer of --------- extends the length of the muscle, coming together at the ends to help form
the tendon and attach to bones - Correct answers✔✔Connective Tissue
How many layers of connective tissue? - Correct answers✔✔3: epimysium, perimysium, and
endomysium
_____ connect muscles to bones. Commonly discussed ones include ---------. When it is
overstretched or torn, this is known as a --------- - Correct answers✔✔Tendons; the Achilles
tendon at the ankle and the patellar tendon of the knee; strain
------ connect bones to bones. Commonly discussed ones include-----. When it t is overstretched
or torn, it is known as a ------ - Correct answers✔✔Ligament; the anterior cruciate ligament of
the knee that connects the tibia to the femur; sprain.
Glycogen - Correct answers✔✔Glucose that is deposited and stored in bodily tissues, such as the
liver and muscle cells; the storage form of carbohydrate.
Myoglobin - Correct answers✔✔Protein-based molecule that carries oxygen molecules into the
muscles.
Myofibrils - Correct answers✔✔The contractile components of a muscle cell; the myofilaments
(actin and myosin) are contained within a myofibril.
Myofilaments - Correct answers✔✔The filaments of a myofibril; include actin and myosin.
Actin - Correct answers✔✔The thin, stringlike, myofilament that acts along with myosin to
produce muscular contraction.
QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ANSWERS
What are the three types of muscles in the body? - Correct answers✔✔skeletal, cardiac, smooth
Cardiac muscle is what makes up - Correct answers✔✔the heart
Smooth muscle is what makes up - Correct answers✔✔primarily the tissues of internal organs
Skeletal Muscle - Correct answers✔✔The type of muscle tissue that connects to bones and
generates the forces that create movement; most important for a CPT; the primary functions are
to contract and produce movement, support the skeletal system, and assist with homeostasis of
the body by producing heat.
Fascia - Correct answers✔✔Connective tissue that surrounds muscles and bones.
Epimysium - Correct answers✔✔Inner layer of fascia that directly surrounds an entire muscle,
commonly referred to as the "deep fascia."
Fascicles - Correct answers✔✔Largest bundles of fibers within a muscle. Fascicles are
surrounded by perimysium.
Perimysium - Correct answers✔✔Connective tissue surrounding a muscle fascicle (Similar to
how epimysium wraps and contains the whole muscle)
Endomysium - Correct answers✔✔Connective tissue that wraps around individual muscle fibers
within a fascicle.
, Each layer of --------- extends the length of the muscle, coming together at the ends to help form
the tendon and attach to bones - Correct answers✔✔Connective Tissue
How many layers of connective tissue? - Correct answers✔✔3: epimysium, perimysium, and
endomysium
_____ connect muscles to bones. Commonly discussed ones include ---------. When it is
overstretched or torn, this is known as a --------- - Correct answers✔✔Tendons; the Achilles
tendon at the ankle and the patellar tendon of the knee; strain
------ connect bones to bones. Commonly discussed ones include-----. When it t is overstretched
or torn, it is known as a ------ - Correct answers✔✔Ligament; the anterior cruciate ligament of
the knee that connects the tibia to the femur; sprain.
Glycogen - Correct answers✔✔Glucose that is deposited and stored in bodily tissues, such as the
liver and muscle cells; the storage form of carbohydrate.
Myoglobin - Correct answers✔✔Protein-based molecule that carries oxygen molecules into the
muscles.
Myofibrils - Correct answers✔✔The contractile components of a muscle cell; the myofilaments
(actin and myosin) are contained within a myofibril.
Myofilaments - Correct answers✔✔The filaments of a myofibril; include actin and myosin.
Actin - Correct answers✔✔The thin, stringlike, myofilament that acts along with myosin to
produce muscular contraction.
