Worksheet 5.4 Muscles of the Upper Half

This muscles (Area #1) stretches from the top of youor forehead to your eyebrows; it raises your eyebrows and wrinkles your forhead.

These muscles (Area #2) are circles around your eyes that allow you to blink or squint.

These muscles (Area #5) are a circle of muscles around the mouth, they allow you to purse your lips like a "duckface"

These muscles (Area #4) run horizontally across the cheek, flatten when whisteling, and compress the cheek when chewing

This muscle (Area #3) extends from the corner of the mouth to the cheekbone; it pulls up the corners of the mouth to smile.

This muscle (Area #6) covers the front and sides of the neck, and pulls the mouth corners down to frown.

This muscle (Area #7) is a fan-shaped muscle covering temporal bone; it's a synergist in closing the mouth.

This muscle (Area #8) covers the occipital bone of skull; it pulls the scalp back and down. Occipitalis

This muscle (Area #9) runs from the zygomatic process to mandible, and elevates the mandible to close the mouth.

This muscle (Area #10) stretches from the Sternum & Clavicle to mastoid process; it flexes neck down and allows for head rotation