Types of Muscles
This muscle type is voluntary and attached to bones.
What is Skeletal Muscle?
What is bending a joint called?
What is flexion?
Skeletal muscles attach to bones by these.
What is tendons?
Medical term for muscle wasting.
What is atrophy?
These connect bone to bone
What is ligaments?
This muscle type is found in the heart.
What is Cardiac Muscle?
What is the opposite of flexion?
What is extension?
Two bones are held together by these.
What are ligaments?
A person tears the tendon that connects a calf muscle to the heel bone, making it difficult to walk or stand on their toes. Which tendon was most likely injured?
What is the Achilles Tendon?
This tough connective tissue connects muscle to bone and helps move the skeleton
What is a tendon?
This muscle type is found in organs like the stomach.
What is smooth muscle?
What is a sudden involuntary strong muscle contraction?
What is a spasm?
Why do muscles need tendons?
What is to connect muscles to bones?
A soccer player suddenly feels pain in their leg after running very fast. The doctor says the muscle fibers were stretched too far but not torn. What injury is this?
What is a muscle strain ?
A muscle has two attachment points called the origin and the insertion.
Which attachment point usually stays stationary during movement?
What is origin?
Cardiac muscle is voluntary.
What is false?
What is an injury caused by overuse or overstretching?
What is a strain?
Which is NOT a muscle type: skeletal, cardiac, smooth, elastic?
What is elastic?
Why do muscles often work in pairs?
What is muscles can only pull, not push ?
This muscle tissue has long cylindrical cells with visible stripes (striations) and is attached to bones.
What is Skeletal muscle?
The large muscle that helps humans move their legs for walking and climbing is the Gluteus Maximus. Where is it located?
What is buttocks/hips ?
When you bend your arm at the elbow, which muscle contracts?
What is biceps?
The point where a muscle attaches to the bone that moves is called this.
What is insertion?
What would most likely happen if the tendons in your leg were injured?
What is muscles could not move bones effectively ?
Skeletal muscles are under voluntary control.
What is true?