Muscle Basics
What body system helps your body move?
The muscular system.
What type of muscle is attached to your bones?
Skeletal Muscles
What are the three types of muscles?
Skeletal, smooth, and cardiac.
Which body system includes the bones that skeletal muscles help move?
The skeletal system
Name one thing you can do to keep your muscles healthy.
Eat nutritious foods or exercise.
What do muscles do when they contract?
They shorten.
What does it mean when skeletal muscles are voluntary?
You control their movements consciously.
Which type of muscle works automatically, without you having to think about it?
Involuntary muscle, such as smooth or cardiac muscle.
Which body system works with muscles to move bones and help your body move from place to place?
The skeletal system.
Why is exercise important for your muscles?
It helps keep muscles strong and healthy.
Muscles cause movement by doing what to something, such as a bone?
Pulling on it.
Which type of muscle helps you kick a soccer ball?
Skeletal muscle.
Where is cardiac muscle found?
In the heart.
Which organ does cardiac muscle move to pump blood?
The heart
What might happen if you do not follow healthy habits and take care of your muscles?
You may be more likely to injure yourself or have weaker muscles.
About what percentage of our body weight is made up of muscles, according to the notes?
Name one group of skeletal muscles that helps you pick things up, protect your spine, or walk.
Arm muscles, back muscles, or leg muscles, respectively.
What is the job of cardiac muscle?
It contracts to keep blood flowing throughout the body.
How do muscles help your digestive system?
Smooth muscles move food through the digestive tract.
A student wants to play soccer safely. Name two healthy habits that can help take care of their muscles.
Exercise regularly, eat nutritious foods, warm up before activity, or follow safe movement practices. Any two.
If muscles pull on bones to help you move, why can't muscles simply push a bone into place?
Muscles pull when they contract; they do not actively push bones.
You decide to raise your hand to answer a question. Which type of muscle are you using, and why?
Skeletal muscle, because you consciously control the movement.
Food moves through your digestive tract without you consciously pushing it along. Which type of muscle helps move it?
Smooth Muscle
Explain two ways muscles help other body systems do their jobs.
They help move bones in the skeletal system, pump blood through the circulatory system, or move food through the digestive system. Any two.
A classmate says, “I only need to take care of my skeletal muscles because my heart works by itself.” What would you tell them?
All three types of muscles are important. Cardiac muscle keeps blood pumping, smooth muscle helps move food through the digestive tract, and skeletal muscle helps the body move.