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grudge muscles head/neck/face muscles 2

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Which muscles are involved in blinking eyes?

(a)  

2.

Watch the top of the nose wiggle. Which muscles are involved in wiggling the nose?

a)

orbicularis oculi

b)

zygomatic major

c)

buccinator

d)

platysma

e)

nasalis

3.

When this dog smiles, it pulls the lips upwards. Which of these muscles move the lips upwards?

a)

depressor anguli oris

b)

zygomatic major

c)

levator labii superioris

d)

nasalis

4.

Watch the cats ears move. Which muscles are responsible for moving the ears?

a)

temporalis

b)

occipitalis

c)

mentalis

d)

frontalis

e)

depressor anguli oris

5.

Watch the eyebrow. Which muscle is responsible for the movement of the eyebrow?

a)

nasalis

b)

orbicularis oris

c)

frontalis

d)

zygomatic minor

e)

platysma

6.

Watch these heads turn. Which pair of muscles helps turn the head?

a)

sternocleidomastoid and occipitalis

b)

levator labii superioris and trapezius

c)

sternocleidomastoid and temporalis

d)

platysma and sternocleidomastoid

7.

Watch the bottom lip. Which pair of muscles moves the lip into the pout (pulls the lip down)?

a)

depressor labii inferiors and mentalis

b)

levator labii superiors and frontalis

c)

depressor anguli oris and nasalis

d)

orbicularis oris and risorius

8.

Watch the very corner of the mouth. Which muscle pulls the corners of the lip downwards?

a)

depressor anguli oris

b)

depressor labii inferiors

c)

levator labii superiors

d)

mentalis

9.

Watch the shoulders shrug. Which muscles help pull the shoulders up into a shrug?

a)

trapezius

b)

sternocleidomastoid

c)

levator labii superioris

d)

occipitalis

10.

Watch the corner of the lip. Which muscle pulls the lips to the side?

a)

buccinator

b)

risorius

c)

masseter

d)

nasalis

11.

Watch the chewing. Which muscle is responsible for closing the jaw?

a)

buccinator

b)

risorius

c)

masseter

d)

sternocleidomastoid

12.

Watch the nostrils. Which muscles move the nostrils?

a)

buccinator

b)

risorius

c)

levator labii superiors

d)

depressor labii inferioris

13.

Watch the skin on the scalp move. Which two muscles are needed to move the skin?

a)

zygomatic minor and major

b)

depressor anguli oris and nasalis

c)

temporalis and mentalis

d)

occipitalis and frontalis

14.

Which muscle helps keep the food inside the teeth and oral cavity?

a)

buccinator

b)

risorius

c)

masseter

d)

nasalis

15.

Watch the cheek. When the jaw clenches, which muscle was engaged?

a)

buccinator

b)

risorius

c)

masseter

d)

zygomatic major

16.

What muscle sticks the tongue out of the mouth?

a)

hyoglossus

b)

styloglossus

c)

genioglossus

d)

masseter

17.

When the tongue is moved up, which muscle moves it?

a)

styloglossus

b)

hyoglossus

c)

genioglossus

d)

buccinator

18.

Watch the tongue move down. Which muscle pulls it down in the center?

a)

styloglossus

b)

genioglossus

c)

hyoglossus

d)

risorius

19.

Which muscle closes the lips?

a)

buccinator

b)

risorius

c)

masseter

d)

orbicularis oculi

e)

orbicularis oris

20.

Which muscle is responsible for the appearance of the chin dent?

(a)