Types
The only type of voluntary muscle
What is skeletal muscle
Where is the rectus abdominus located?
What is in your abdominal area
What is the name of the muscle in your chest?
What is pectoralis major.
Muscles can only shorten. The muscle that lengthens during a movement is known as what?
What is the antagonist?
What are muscle fibers made up of?
What are strands of protein?
Involuntary muscle found in the heart but nowhere else in the body
What is cardiac muscle
Where is the quadricep located?
Upper leg
Where is the lattisimus dorsi
What is your back (posterior) muscle
Which muscle causes extension of the arm?
What is the tricep?
When a bone gets pushed out of its joint?
What is a dislocation?
The type of muscles found in the digestive system. (also your lungs.)
What are smooth muscles?
Where is the gastrocnemius?
Your lower leg
The name of the body system we have been studying the past 2 days.
What is muscular system?
Type of muscle that contracts blood vessels to push blood through the circulatory system.
What is smooth muscle?
Connects muscles to bones
What are tendons
When a muscle gets shorter, what type of movement happens?
What is contraction?
Name 2 of the 3 functions of the muscular system.
What is movement, maintain body temperature, support your body, protect organs, balance?
Which muscle extends(straightens) your leg?
What are quadriceps?
Give a name of an injury that can happen to a muscle.
What is pull, tear, or strain?
This is the name of a muscle that is working against an active muscle.
What is an antagonist?
The back muscle that looks like a diamond and pulls the shoulder blades together.
What is the trapezius?
This muscle is located on the back of your upper arm.
What is tricep?
What are muscles made up of?
What are muscle fibers?
Explain how muscles become bigger and stronger from working out.
Muscle fibers tear during exercise. They then repair themselves bigger and stronger to avoid injury in the future.