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Date:
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Classwork: 6.4 Muscle Reading
Directions: Go to http://kidshealth.org/kid/htbw/muscles.html# This website gives great
information on the different types of muscles found in your body. Answer each question. CS:
Complete Sentence. IS: Incomplete Sentence. FB: Fill in the blank.
Page 1: Introduction
1. IS
How many muscles do you have in your body?
2. IS
2 things your muscles help you do
3. Fill in the blank
Muscles are all made of the same _____________________________. A type of elastic
_______________________________________. (sort of like the material in a rubber
band). _______________________________, or even tens of _______________________, of
small fibers make up each muscle.
4. What are the three
1.
different types of muscles in
2.
your body? IS
3.
Page 1: Smooth Muscles
5. IS
What are smooth muscles sometimes called?
6. How do you usually find
smooth muscles CS
7. IS
Yes or No
Can you control smooth muscle?
Do smooth muscles work without you thinking or trying to work them?
Can you use smooth muscles make a make a muscle in your arm?
Can you use smooth muscles to jump into the air?
8. What do you smooth
muscles do in your stomach
and digestive system? CS
9. What do your smooth
muscles do when you are sick
and need to throw up? CS
(the esophagus is your
throat)
10. What happens when
smooth muscles in your
bladder are relaxed? CS
11. What happens when the
smooth muscles in your
bladder contract? CS
*Contract means tighten
12. What do smooth muscles
do for your eyes? CS
Page 2: 1. A Hearty Muscle
13.Fill in the blank
*cardiac is a special word for
heart
14. Why does your heart
muscle contract? CS
The muscle that makes up the heart is called ______________________ ______________.
15. Why does your heart
muscle relax? CS
16. How is cardiac muscle
just like smooth muscle? CS
Page 2: Skeletal Muscle
17What are skeletal muscles?
CS
First paragraph
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Why are skeletal muscles
called striated muscles? CS
IS
What is striated a fancy word for?
What does it mean when the
article says that skeletal
muscles are voluntary? CS
What is the musculoskeletal
system? CS
IS
What do your skeletal muscles and bones work together to give you?
Fill in the blank
In most cases, a _______________ ____________________ is attached to one end of a
__________________. It (the skeletal muscle) stretches all the way across a
____________ (the place where two bones meet) and then _____________ again to
Skeletal muscles are held to the bones with the help of ________________________.
Fill in the blank
What are tendons CS
Where are your biggest most
powerful muscles? What do
these muscles help you do?
2 CS
Page 3: Face Muscles
3 facts about face muscles
2 facts about your tongue
Page 3: Major Muscles: choose 3 muscles and write out their functions
Muscle 1:
Muscle 2:
Muscle 3:
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