Muscular System

Question 1

What is the shoulder muscle?

Answer 1

Deltoid

Question 2

What is the front of the upper arm called?

Answer 2

Bicep

Question 3

What is the chest muscle called

Answer 3

Pectorals

Question 4

What is the stomach area muscle?

Answer 4

Abdominals

Question 5

What is the upper leg muscle?

Answer 5

Quadriceps

Question 6

What is the muscle bellow the neck on your back called?

Answer 6

Trapezius

Question 7

What is the back of the upper arm called?

Answer 7

Triceps

Question 8

What is the back muscles called?

Answer 8

Lattisimus Dorsi

Question 9

What is the bum muscles called?

Answer 9

Gluteals

Question 10

What is the back of the upper leg called?

Answer 10

Hamstrings

Question 11

What is the back of the lower leg called?

Answer 11

Gastrocnemius

Question 12

What is the functions of the pectorals

Answer 12

Adduct the arm at the shoulder joint as well as rotate the arm inwards.

Question 13

What is the function of the biceps?

Answer 13

Cause flexion of the arm at the elbow

Question 14

What is the function of the triceps?

Answer 14

Extend the arm at the elbow

Question 15

What is the function of the Lattisimus Dorsi?

Answer 15

Adduct the arm backwards and rotate inwards

Question 16

What is the function of the trapezius?

Answer 16

Extend the neck, lifting the head upwards

Question 17

What is the function of the deltoid?

Answer 17

All movements of the arm

Question 18

What is the function of the abdominals?

Answer 18

To bend the body forwards at the hip flexing the vertebrae.

Question 19

What is the function of the gluteals?

Answer 19

Flex and extend the leg at the hip

Question 20

What is the function of the hamstrings?

Answer 20

Straighten the hip and cause flexion of the leg at the knee

Question 21

What is the function of the gastrocnemius?

Answer 21

Straighten the leg at the ankle to stand or point.

Question 22

What is the function of the Quadriceps

Answer 22

Extend the leg at the knee

Question 23

What is an antagonistic pair?

Answer 23

A pair of muscles that work together to create movement

Question 24

Name 2 examples of antagonistic pairs?

Answer 24

Biceps and triceps
Quadriceps and Hamstrings

Question 25

What can muscles only do?

Answer 25

Pull

Question 26

What is the agonist?
What happens to the agonist when it pulls?

Answer 26

The muscle that contracts to allow movement.
It becomes shorter

Question 27

What is the antagonist?
What happens to the antagonist during relaxation?

Answer 27

The muscle that relaxes whilst the agonist contracts.
The muscle becomes longer

Question 28

What is the origin?

Answer 28

The end of the muscle that is attached to a bone that is stable

Question 29

What is insertion?

Answer 29

The end of a muscle attached to the bone that moves

Question 30

What is the agonist and antagonist during the upwards phase of a bicep curl?

Answer 30

Agonist= Biceps
Antagonist= Triceps

Question 31

What is isotonic?

Answer 31

Contractions and providing movement

Question 32

What is isometric?

Answer 32

When the muscles contract but stay in a fixed position, no movement occurs

Question 33

Name an example of an isometric excerise.

Answer 33

A plank

Question 34

What are the 3 types of muscle?

Answer 34

Involuntary
Cardiac
Skeletal

Question 35

What is an involuntary muscle and where is it found?

Answer 35

A muscle that we do not control and found in the body’s internal organ

Question 36

What is a cardiac muscle?

Answer 36

A muscle found at the heart and is also a type of involuntary muscle

Question 37

What is a skeletal muscle(voluntary muscle) and what are they used for?

Answer 37

A muscle that is under our control through conscious thought and is used for movement.