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8. in the chicken wing diagram, what is the muscle between the shoulder and the elbow?

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Biceps brachii and a flexor

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7. In the chicken wing, what is found to the left of triceps brachii?

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Flexor

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10. In the chicken wing diagram, what is at the very top of the shoulder?

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Triceps brachii and a extensor

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11. In the chicken wing diagram, what is below triceps brachii?

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Extensor

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12. “Cardiac disease is a major problem in the United States.” What can you infer about cardiac disease?

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It affects your heart

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20. Which of the following is an extensor?

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Triceps brachii

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22. What can you infer from the fact that your body is basically covered in voluntary muscle?

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Large network of nerves also runs throughout your body

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23. What might happen if your tendons snapped in half

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You wouldn’t be able to move a bone

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24. What is a striated object?

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Something smooth and it isn’t straight and stable

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27. Which type of muscle reacts and tires quickly?

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Skeletal muscle

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28. Why are voluntary muscles also known as skeletal muscles?

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They make your skeleton move

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29. Which type of muscle tissue tires quickly during exercise?

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Skeletal muscle

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30. Which type of muscle tissue never tired and contacts continually until death?

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Cardiac muscle

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31. What is the best synonym for “voluntary”?

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Optional

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32. How do pairs of skeletal muscles work together?

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While one muscle in the pair contracts, the other one returns to its original length

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33. Which type of muscle in found only in the heart?

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Cardiac muscle

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34. Where is a smooth muscle found?

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Inside many internal organs, such as the stomach and blood vessels

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36. What muscle allows you to nod?

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Sternocleidomastoid and deltoid

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37. What is your sternocleidomastoid and where is it?

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Found right below the head, in the neck area. It allows you to nod

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38. What is your quadriceps femoras and where is it?

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It’s found below your stomach area, and it extends your leg above the knee

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40. Muscle that relaxes to allow the leg extend at the knee?

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Adductor Magnus

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47. Muscle used to extend or straighten the leg?

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Quadriceps femoras

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48. What is your tibialis anterior and where is it?

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Found below your knee, and it flexes

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49. What extends or straightens the forearm?

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Biceps brachii

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50. What is your external oblique and where is it?

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Found below your ribs, and it flexes

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51. What is your deltoid and where is it?

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Found below your shoulder, and it is an abduction

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54. Makes a prominent bulge as it flexes at the elbow?

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Biceps brachii

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57. Kite shaped muscle?

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Trapezius

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59. What is your Gastrocnemius?

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Flexes your ankle, found above the ankle

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61. Provides support for the abdomen and its many organs?

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Rictus abdominus and external oblique

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62. Pectoralis major?

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Adduct found near the ribs

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63. A triangular muscle that moves the arm away from the center of the body?

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Deltoid

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64. Straplike muscles that extend from the ribs to the pelvis?

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Rectus abdominus and external oblique

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65. Allows the head to rotate and the neck to flex?

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Sternocleidomastoid

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68. Muscles used in closing jaw

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Masseter

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73. Where is your cardiac muscle?

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The heart

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74. What is a smooth muscle?

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Not striated, moves food through your body-involuntary

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Essay-explain how muscles work as a pair to bend and straighten the arm at the elbow causing movement at the joint. Make sure you discuss the type of joint movement

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The flexion of a joint gets smaller in the joints angle from the body in the anatomical position. The flexor contracts and has pulled the bone of the forearm.

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68. Muscle used in closing jaw

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Masseter

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73. Where in the body is the cardiac muscle found?

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Only in the heart

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74. What is your smooth muscle?

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Muscle tissue in the walls of internal organs such as the stomach

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75. What types of muscle are voluntary and involuntary?

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Smooth-involuntary
Cardiac-voluntary
Skeletal-voluntary

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