U5l4 - Muscle Types, Movements, and Names

Unit 5 - Muscle Types, Movements, and Names

Multiple Choice

The point of muscle attachment to an immovable or less movable bone is known as the ____.

• innervation

• action

• insertion

• origin

Multiple Choice

What is structure "E"?

• insertion

• origin

• contracting muscle

• immovable bone

Multiple Choice

While doing "jumping jacks" during an exercise class, your arms and legs move laterally away from the midline of your body. This motion is called ____.

• extension

• flexion

• adduction

• abduction

Multiple Choice

Which of the below terms is labeled as “C”?

• Antagonist

• Insertion

• Origin

• Prime Mover

Multiple Choice

Stabilizes a joint so that the prime mover can act at more distal joints

• synergist

• fixator

• prime mover

• antagonist

Multiple Choice

You have discovered a new muscle named tibialis deltoideus. This muscle would most likely be a ____.

• shoulder muscle

• triangular muscle of the leg

• an abductor muscle of the thigh

• adductor muscle of the thigh