Muscular System: Quiz 5e-Joint Movement

When kicking a football, the knee

• Flexes

• Extends

• Abducts

• Adducts

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Extension
• Flexion
• Abduction
• Adduction

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Extension
• Flexion
• Abduction
• Adduction

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Extension
• Flexion
• Abduction
• Adduction

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Circumduction
• Lateral Rotation
• Medial Rotation
• Eversion

Turning the hand so that the palm is upward or facing anteriorly (in anatomical position).

• supination
• pronation
• flexion
• dorsiflexion

Flexion means to

• Increase the angle of a joint

• Decrease the angle of a joint

• Take a limb away from the body

• Return a limb towards the body

Adduction means

• Increase the angle of a joint

• Decrease the angle of a joint

• Take a limb away from the body

• Return a limb towards the body

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Circumduction
• Lateral Rotation
• Medial Rotation
• Eversion

Identify the joint action being performed.

• Inversion
• Eversion
• Plantarflexion
• Dorsiflexion