Joints
Muscles
Muscle Fiber Types and Contractions
Movements
Lucky dip
100
The most freely movable joint in the body.
What is a synovial joint?
100
The group of muscles found in the front of you thigh responsible for the extension of the knee.
What are the quadriceps?
100

There are two basic types of voluntary muscle fibre, what are they?

Fast Twitch and Slow Twitch

100
A movement where the joint bends so that the bones of the joint move closer to one another.
What is flexion?
100
This is the biggest and strongest bone in the body.
What is the femur?
200
A joint that allows some movement, found in the vertebral column.
What is a cartilaginous joint?
200
It is muscle that contracts involuntarily and is found in the heart.
What is cardiac muscle?
200

This fibre type is deep red in colour

What is slow-twitch

200
A movement where the joint is straightened to its full extent.
What is extension?
200
This synovial joint involves the tibia, fibula, femur, and patella bones.
What is the knee joint?
300
A joint that allows no movement at all, found in between the sutures of the cranium.
What is a fibrous joint?
300
This type of muscle contracts involuntarily and lines the inside of our organs.
What is smooth muscle?
300

When the muscle shortens, what type of contraction is this called

concentric

300
A movement away from the central line of the body.
What is abduction?
300
There are 7 of these located in the spinal column.
What are the cervical vertebrae?
400
A type of synovial joint that allows the following movement to take place: flexion, extension, abduction, adduction, rotation, and circumduction.
What is a ball and socket joint?
400
A connective tissue that connects muscle to bone.
What is a tendon?
400

A marathon runner would generally have a large amount of this muscle fibre type

What is slow twitch

400
A movement towards the central line of the body.
What is adduction?
400
In any given movement this is the muscle that contracts and is responsible for the movement.
What is an agonist?
500
A type of synovial joint that allows flexion and extension only to take place. The knee and elbow are this type of joint.
What is a hinge joint?
500
A connective tissue that connects bone to bone.
What is a ligament?
500

This is the type of contraction that does not create movement

Isometric contraction

500
A movement which causes part of the body to describe a complete circle.
What is circumduction?
500
This muscle is responsible for FLEXION of the hip.
What is the Ilio Psoas muscle?
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