Escape room halloween / Locomotor System

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Get all the sweets!

escape halloween

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Your pumpkin is ready for the spookiest night of the year. Your mission: to go through five haunted houses, solve their puzzles and collect a chilling treasure trove of candy. 🎃👻🍬

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Your sweets

Go home by home!

Knock

Alert! Witches nearby! Do you dare to knock?

Witch's House

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B) The membrane of a muscle fibre

A) The protein that binds calcium in muscles

What is the sarcolemma?

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B)They stay still while myosin moves.

A) They slide past myosin filaments to shorten the muscle.

What do actin filaments do during muscle contraction?

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B) Within each myofibril of skeletal muscle fibres.

A) Within each myofibril of skeletal and cardiac muscle fibres.

Where is the sarcomere found?

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Your sweets

You've passed the first test and caught some candy. Keep up the good work!

Phantasmagoric!

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Your sweets

Go to the next house!

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A wolf is loose! Do you have the courage to knock?

House of the Wolf

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B) Sodium ions.

A) Potassium ions.

What ion primarily initiates an action potential in muscles?

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B) The cell becomes more negatively charged inside.

A) The cell interior becomes less negative, often reversing polarity.

What happens during depolarisation of a muscle cell?

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B) A motor neuron and all the muscle fibres it innervates.

A) A single muscle fibre.

What does a motor unit consist of?

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Your sweets

You have overcome the wolf and your candy bag is growing.

Greatl!

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Your sweets

Go to the next house!

Knock

An electrifying house, do you dare?⚡

Frankenstein's House

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B) It acts as a neurotransmitter to trigger muscle contraction.

A) It breaks down ATP for muscle energy.

What role does acetylcholine play in muscle contraction?

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A) Calcium.

B) Sodium.

Which ions released by the sarcoplasmic reticulum are key to initiate the attractive forces between the actin and myosin, generating the contraction?

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B) Troponin.

A) Tropomyosin.

To which protein do the calcium ions bind to initiate muscle contraction?

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Your sweets

You have unraveled the mysteries of Frankenstein and earn one more candy.

You nailed it!

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Your sweets

Go to the next house!

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A mummy in the house! Shall we go?

Mummy's House

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B) The electrical activity of muscles.

A) The levels of lactic acid in muscles.

What does an electromyography (EMG) test measure?

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B) Surface EMG.

A) Intramuscular EMG.

Which method of EMG is commonly used for clinical studies?

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B) Disorders affecting only the muscles.

A) Disorders affecting the nerves or muscles, such as neuropathies or myopathies.

What can an EMG test help diagnose?

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Your sweets

You've cracked the mummy's secrets and added more candy.

Fantastic!

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Your sweets

There is only one house left!

knock

Last stop, Dracula's house! Do we dare?

Drácula's House

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B) Stroke.

A) Asthma.

Which disease can affect skeletal muscle activity?

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B) Myasthenia Gravis.

Which condition is a disease of the neuromuscular junction?

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A) Parkinson’s disease.

B) By directly damaging muscle tissue.

A) By blocking the release of acetylcholine, preventing muscle contraction.

How does botulism affect muscle function?

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Your sweets

You've outsmarted Dracula himself and your bag of candy is about to explode.

You are a legend!!

Your journey has been terrifyingly in-cre-di-ble and your pile of candy, out of this world!

You did it!

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