Muscular System Cards

Question 0

Allows you to close your eyes, squint, blink, and wink.

Answer 0

Orbicularis oculi

Question 1

Allows you to raise your eyebrows

Answer 1

Frontalis

Question 2

Protrudes the lips; the “kissing muscle”

Answer 2

Orbicularis oris

Question 3

Closes the jaw

Answer 3

Temporalis

Question 4

Raises the corners of the mouth upward; the “smiling muscle”

Answer 4

Zygomaticus

Question 5

Closes the jaw by elevating the mandible

Answer 5

Masseter

Question 6

Whistling muscle/blowing through an instrument muscle

Answer 6

Buccinator

Question 7

Flexes your neck; the “prayer muscle”

Answer 7

Sternocleidmastoid

Question 8

Adducts and flexes humerus

Answer 8

Pectoralis major

Question 9

Flexes vertebral colum

Answer 9

Rectus abdominus

Question 10

Flexes and rotates vertebral colum

Answer 10

External oblique and external oblique

Question 11

Flexes elbow and supinates arm

Answer 11

Biceps brachii

Question 12

Abducts arm

Answer 12

Deltoid

Question 13

Flexes hip

Answer 13

Lliopsoas

Question 14

Extends knee; also flexes hip on thigh

Answer 14

Quadriceps

Question 15

Dorsiflexes and inverts foot

Answer 15

Tibialias Anterior

Question 16

Elevates, depresses, adducts, and stabilizes the scapula

Answer 16

Trapezius

Question 17

Extends and adducts the humerus

Answer 17

Latissimus Dorsi

Question 18

Extends elbow

Answer 18

Triceps brachii

Question 19

Extends hip (when forceful extension is required)

Answer 19

Gluteus Maximus

Question 20

Abducts thigh; steadies pelvis during walking

Answer 20

Gluteus medius

Question 21

Flex knee and extends hips

Answer 21

Hamstrings

Question 22

Plantar flexes foot and flexes knee

Answer 22

Gastronemius

Question 23

Plantar flexes foot

Answer 23

Soleus