5/17 Muscular System

5/17 Muscular System

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Question #1: How do you know the table tennis player’s muscles are working?

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Question #2: What does it mean to “contract”? What does it mean to “relax”?

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Question #3: What are skeletal muscles?

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Question #4: What is the relationship between the size of the body part that needs to move and the size of the muscles that move it? Do you think the muscle is bigger or the body part is bigger?

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Question #5: Now that you know what voluntary muscles are, what do you think involuntary muscles are? Do you think voluntary and involuntary muscles work together in the body?

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Question #6: Think about a time you used your muscles and were sore the next day. Describe the experience and tell why you think this was.

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Question #7 How do muscles in the human body work?