Planes & Movement
This plane divides the body into left and right halves.
What is the sagittal plane?
The knee is classified as this type of joint.
What is a hinge joint?
This muscle is responsible for elbow flexion.
What is the biceps?
These blood vessels allow exchange of gases, nutrients, and waste.
What are capillaries?
This part of the nervous system includes the brain and spinal cord.
What is the central nervous system (CNS)?
Raising your arm out to the side is this type of movement.
What is abduction?
This type of joint allows the greatest range of movement, including rotation.
What is a ball-and-socket joint?
This type of muscle is voluntary and attached to bones.
What is skeletal muscle?
The primary composition of fascia is ___.
What are collagen fibers, water, and elastin?
Which type of neurone carries impulses from receptors to the CNS?
What is a sensory neurone?
Twisting at the waist to pass a soccer ball occurs in this plane of motion.
What is the transverse plane?
The skull sutures are an example of this type of joint.
What is a fibrous joint?
During a plank, muscles maintain tension without changing length. This contraction is called ___.
What is an isometric contraction?
List the three main types of blood vessels and their functions.
What are arteries (carry blood away from the heart), veins (return blood to the heart), and capillaries (exchange gases/nutrients)?
Give one example of a receptor and the stimulus it detects.
What is a mouth detecting sour, sweet, hot, cold? (Other answers acceptable.)
Moving a limb toward the midline of the body is called this.
What is adduction?
Name the three bones that form the pelvis.
What are the ilium, ischium, and pubis?
Biceps and triceps are an example of this type of muscle pair.
What is an antagonistic pair?
The spleen is responsible for this function.
What is filtering blood and removing old red blood cells?
This is how the nervous and endocrine systems work together to maintain homeostasis.
What is by using electrical signals (nervous) and chemical signals (endocrine) to regulate body conditions?
Rotating your forearm so your palm faces upward is this movement.
What is supination?
This long bone is found in the thigh
What is the femur?
A Type IIx (white) muscle fiber is best described as having these characteristics.
What is high force, very fast contraction, and low fatigue resistance?
The main function of the lymphatic system is this.
What is maintaining fluid levels and fighting infection?
Using an example, explain the pathway of a reflex action from stimulus to response.
What is stimulus → receptor → sensory neurone → relay neurone → motor neurone → effector → response?