Which muscle is attached to the bones of the skeleton and provides the force that moves the bones?

Which muscle is attached to the bones of the skeleton and provides the force that moves the bones?

• A. Skeletal Muscle
• B. Cardiac Muscle
• C. Smooth Muscle
• D. Tendon

Answer: (A)

Movement of the skeleton comes from contraction of skeletal muscles that are attached to bones by tendons. When these muscles contract, they pull on the tendons, which tug on the bones across joints to create motion. This type of muscle is voluntary and striated, specialized for deliberate, controlled actions. Cardiac muscle forms the heart wall and pumps blood, not bones. Smooth muscle lines hollow organs and blood vessels and doesn’t move the skeleton. A tendon is connective tissue that connects a muscle to bone and transmits its force, but it isn’t a muscle itself. So the muscle that provides the force moving the bones is skeletal muscle.

Movement of the skeleton comes from contraction of skeletal muscles that are attached to bones by tendons. When these muscles contract, they pull on the tendons, which tug on the bones across joints to create motion. This type of muscle is voluntary and striated, specialized for deliberate, controlled actions. Cardiac muscle forms the heart wall and pumps blood, not bones. Smooth muscle lines hollow organs and blood vessels and doesn’t move the skeleton. A tendon is connective tissue that connects a muscle to bone and transmits its force, but it isn’t a muscle itself. So the muscle that provides the force moving the bones is skeletal muscle.