Types of Muscles
What are the three different kinds of muscle groups?
Smooth, cardiac, skeletal
What is a voluntary muscle?
Ones you can control or choose to move
What is the name of the largest muscle in your body?
Gluteus Maximus
True or false? Stretching helps your muscles.
True
More than 650
What kind of muscles are found in your digestive system?
smooth
What does it mean if a muscle is "involuntary"?
What two muscles help your upper arm to move?
Biceps and Triceps
Name a type of exercise that would help your muscles
running, swimming, lifting weights etc.
What are muscles made of?
Muscle fibres
What are muscles associated with the heart called?
cardiac
Is the heart a voluntary or involuntary muscle?
Involuntary
Name the longest muscle in your leg
Sartorius
True or false? Muscles and joints stretch better when they are warmed up.
True
What does it mean when a muscles contracts?
Does it get longer or shorter?
Shorter
Name two kinds of involuntary muscles
smooth and cardiac
Smooth?
Cardiac?
Skeletal?
Skeletal
What are muscles around your chest called?
Pectoral
What attaches muscles to bones?
Tendons
When a muscles is not contracted what is it doing?
It is relaxed
Why did God make some of our muscles involuntary
So that we can keep breathing, our heart can keep beating and we can keep digesting even asleep
Smooth muscles are involuntary. Where do you find these muscles?
Stomach, intestines, bladder
What is the muscle in your neck that helps rotate your head?
Sternocleidomastoid
Name three foods that help your muscles.
Meat, eggs, dairy products, nuts, soy, beans, spinach, etc.
What is the job of muscles?
They control movement in your body.