Muscles: Chicken, Slow/Fast and more Flashcards
What is the muscle on the side of the head called?
Temporalis
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To straighten the arm at the elbow what does the bicep and the tricep muscle do?
Returns to its original length;contracts
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When muscles receive messages from the nervous system, what are they doing?
Contract and shorten
What can Skeletal muscle do?
Only contract
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What are the muscles found in the heart?
Cardiac
What is the best “synonym” for voluntary?
Unforced
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Why are voluntary muscles also known as skeletal muscles?
They make your skeleton move
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What is a strong connective tissue that attaches bone to bone?
Ligament
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What is not a characteristic of the cardiac muscle?
Get tired
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What is the muscle around the eye?
Obicularis oculi
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What do fast twitch muscle have?
Fewer mitochondria than dark meat
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