muscle quiz

What is the action of the quadriceps?

• Extend hip and flex knee

• Flex hip and extend knee

• Rotate hip

• abduct hip

The hamstrings are found on

• The back of the leg

• The front of the leg

• The lower leg

• The bottom

Soleus action is

• extends foot

• dorsi flex foot

• plantar flex foot

• extends toes

Sartorius action is to

• plantar flexes hip

• rotate hip only

• extends hip

• Flex and abducts hip

Rectus abdominus action is to

• extend the spine

• flex the spine

• twist the torso

• raise the shoulders

where is gastrocnemius?

• anterior lower leg

• posterior lower leg

• anterior upper leg

• posterior lower leg

Match the following

• flexion of the spine

• pectoralis major

• adduction of the arm

• transverse abdominis

• rotation, flexion and side bend

• erector spinae

• stabilisation of the core

• internal obliques

• extension of the spine

• rectus abdominis

what is the origin of a muscle

• the fixed non moving end

• the moving end

• an antagonistic pair

• the myofibrils

which of the following are the thicker muscle fibres?

• actin

• myosin

• myofibrils

• z lines