Worksheets1 - How the Body Moves - Muscular System
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 13mins
Which of these muscle types contracts involuntarily?
Skeletal
Cardiac
Smooth
Striated
Which of the following athletes would have a high level
of Type IIa muscle fibres?
Marathon Runner
1500m swimmer
400m Runner
100m Sprinter
What type of muscle fibre would be dominant amongst the athletes pictured here?
Type I
Type IIx
Type IIa
What muscle fibres are the most dominant
amongst those athletes pictured?
Type I
Type IIa
Type x
What body movement is this muscle most responsible for?
Leg Internal Rotation
Leg Flexion
Leg Adduction
Leg Extension
Which muscle is responsible for flexion of the arm at the elbow?
(a)
Muscles are attached to bone by (a) .
The _________ is the end of the muscle that is attached to a fixed bone does that not move during a contration.
Origin
Insertion
What contraction is occurring in the gastrocnemius muscle during the downward phase of a calf raise?
Isotonic Eccentric
Isotonic Concentric
Isometric Eccentric
Isometric Concentric
The __________ is the end of the muscle that is attached to the bone that moves when the muscle contracts.
Origin
Insertion
During the extension phase of a leg exercise which muscle acts as the agonist?
Calf
Quadrecip
Hamstring
Gluteus
What type of muscle contratcion is occurring here?
Isotonic
Isometric
Concentric
Eccentric
What type of muscle contraction sees a change in the
length of a muscle?
(a)
Which muscle acts as the antagonist muscle during the upward phase of the tricep extension?
(a)
What muscle is responsible for dorsi-flexion?
Hamstring
Quadricep
Tibalis Anterior
Gastrocnemius
What area of the body would you find the Deltoid muscle?
Hand
Hip
Elbow
Shoulder
Which of these muscles would be responsible for helping with movement of the head?
Teres Major
Infraspinatus
Trapezius
Deltiod
What muscle pulls your arm down at the shoulder and
draws it behind your back.
Latissimus Dorsi
Tibialis Anterior
Bicep
External Obliques
Which of the following muscle pairs act as
antagonistic muscles?
Bicep/Tricep
Hamstring/ Quadricep
Deltiod/Latissimus Dorsi
All of the above
When the bumbbell is neither moving upwards or downwards what contraction is occurring?
(a)
