Muscle Movement

What is the origin of a muscle?

• place where a tendon attaches the muscle to the moveable end of a bone

• the tissue from which a muscle develops

• place where a tendon attaches the muscle to the immoveable end of a bone

• the thickest part of a muscle

• extension

• flexion

• circumduction

• adduction

• abduction

• extension

• flexion

• circumduction

• adduction

• abduction

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The place where a tendon attaches the muscle to the moveable end of the bone is known as

• the origin

• the insertion

• a joint

• an articulation

Muscles can push AND pull on bones

• True

• False: muscles can only PUSH on bones

• False: muscles can only PULL on ones

Muscles create movement by:

• contracting

• stretching

• contracting and stretching

• pushing on bones

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Name this movement

• extension

• flexion

• adduction

• abduction

Name this movement

• adduction

• abduction

• flexion

• extension

Another name for the prime mover is

• antagonist

• agonist

• synergist

• fixator

In the picture, the biceps are the

• antagonist

• agonist

• fixator

• synergist