Muscle types
About Skeletal Muscles
Keeping Muscles Healthy
100
Skeletal muscles are:
a. Found only in your heart
b. Involuntary muscles inside of many internal body organs
c. Provide the force that moves your bones
c. Provide the force that moves your bones
100
Are skeletal muscles voluntary or involuntary?
Voluntary.
100
Why is exercise important for muscles?
Helps to maintain strength and flexibility and makes individual muscle cells grow bigger.
200
Blood vessels and the stomach are examples of organs that contain:
a. Smooth muscle tissue
b. Cardiac muscle tissue
c. Voluntary muscles
a. Smooth muscle tissue
200
How do muscles work as a pair?
One muscle contracts while the other muscle is relaxed.
200
What does warming up before exercising do for your muscles?
Increases blood flow to your muscles.
300
Cardiac muscle is:
a. An involuntary muscle
b. Found only in your heart
c. Does not tire
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
300
In each picture, which muscle is contracting and which muscle is relaxed?
First picture: The tricep is contracting and the bicep is relaxed.
Second picture: The bicep is contracting and the tricep is relaxed.
300
How does stretching help your muscles?
Helps your muscles become more flexible and prepares them for exercise.
400
Tendons:
a. Are protective tissue
b. Attach muscle to the bone
c. Are in smooth muscle tissue
d. Are an involuntary muscle
b. Attach muscle to the bone
400
Which one is a skeletal muscle?
a. Stomach
b. Heart
c. Legs
d. Lungs
c. Legs
400
How can a muscle strain occur?
When muscles are overworked or overstretched.
500
Explain what involuntary muscles are and give an example.
Muscles we cannot control.
ex. Heart, Lungs, Stomach etc
500
Explain why skeletal muscles are considered voluntary muscles.
They are considered voluntary muscles because we have concsious control over them and can move them.
500
What can happen to muscles after long periods of exercise?
Muscles can cramp, contract, and or stay contracted.