Chapter 48: Musculoskeletal Systems
Complete Chapter Questions With Answers
Sample Questions Are Posted Below
Multiple Choice
- A frog can jump _______ times its body length, a human can jump _______ times his or her body length, and a flea can jump _______ times its body length.
- 20; 5; 200
- 6.5; 7.4; 1.2
- 5; 20; 200
- 200; 5; 20
- 7.4; 6.5; 1.2
Answer: a
Textbook Reference: 48.0 Champion jumpers
Page: 1006
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
- A flea manages to jump up to 200 times its body length by
- using very powerful muscles.
- compressing an elastic material in its legs.
- compressing water, which jets out of small holes in its carapace.
- using vestigial wings to assist its muscles.
- taking advantage of the shape of its carapace and gliding.
Answer: b
Textbook Reference: 48.0 Champion jumpers
Page: 1006
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
- Unlike humans, kangaroos can increase their movement speed without an increase in their metabolic rate because
- their diet is more energy-rich than ours is.
- they have more mitochondria per cell than we do.
- the recoil in their elastic tendons helps power each jump.
- they convert starch directly to ATP without first hydrolyzing it to glucose.
- they alternate which foot they use each time they jump.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: 48.0 Champion jumpers
Page: 1006–1007
Bloom’s Category: 2. Understanding
- The striated appearance of skeletal muscle is due to the
- dark color of myosin.
- multiple nuclei per fiber.
- regular arrangement of filaments.
- dense array of microtubules.
- dense packing of ATP molecules.
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: 48.1 How Do Muscles Contract?
Page: 1007
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering
5.–9. Match the correct muscle type from the list below with each description that follows. Each term may be used more than once.
- Smooth
- Cardiac
- Skeletal
- Which muscle type is multinucleated?
Answer: c
Textbook Reference: 48.1 How Do Muscles Contract?
Page: 1007
Bloom’s Category: 1. Remembering

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