Muscles Flashcards
1
Q
turn chemical potential energy into mechanical energy, or movement simply by contracting or relaxing
A
muscle tissues
2
Q
You have over _______ muscles in your body
A
600
3
Q
three types of muscle tissue are…
A
smooth, cardiac, and skeletal
4
Q
smooth muscle tissue
A
short, tapered cells with no striations. Found in the walls of all your hollow visceral organs. There it involuntarily contracts and relaxes to push and move fluids and other substances around in the organs.
