Study of human movement
What is Kinesiology?
This is combination of linear and angular motion.
What is General Motion?
An object's resistance to change in motion.
What is Inertia?
Building blocks of bone.
What are Osteocytes?
Closer to the head
What is Superior?
Involving the use of numbers
What is Quantitative?
This plane runs side to side.
What is Frontal?
Push or pull; the product of mass and acceleration
What is Force?
Compact bones and spongy bones.
What are two types of Bone Tissue?
A pressing or squeezing force
What is Compression?
Physical education teachers, coaches, personal trainers, and exercise instructors
Another name for a freely moveable joint.
What is synovial or Diarthrosis joint?
Point around which a body's weight is equally balanced, no matter how the body is positioned.
What is center of gravity?
The Skeletal system can be divided in to two types.
What are axial (central) and appendicular (peripheral)?
Toward the front of the body.
What is Anterior?
Commonly called form or technique
What is Kinematics of skill or exercise?
This type of synovial joint allows wide movements in 3 planes.
Ball-and-socket
Amount of three-dimensional space occupied by a body.
What is Volume?
Specialized bone cells that build new bone tissue.
What are Osteoblasts?
A pulling or stretching force.
What is Tension?
The study of size, shape and body segment composition which may predispose an athlete to success in a sport.
What is Anthropometry?
Combines Flexion, Extension, Adduction, and Abduction.
What is Circumduction?
A single force that causes injury.
What is Acute loading?
Porous bones.
What is Osteoporosis?
Newton's third Law of Motion
What is Action and Reaction?