How strong is your knowledge of muscles?
Across
- 5. What is the word that we described as the ability to do high intensity exercise for more than 5 minutes?
- 7. What is the name of thin myofilament?
- 8. What is one attribute of skeletal muscle that alternates between light and dark that smooth muscle doesn’t have?
- 9. What is the name of the muscle that lines the inside of our internal organs?
- 10. What is the type of contraction called when you shorten your muscle but the tension within the muscle stays the same?
Down
- 1. What must stimulate a skeletal muscle for it to contract?
- 2. What is the name of the thick myofilament of muscle?
- 3. What is what characteristic of muscle that allows you to complete a bicep curl?
- 4. What is the name of the unit of muscle that shortens and relaxes upon contraction?
- 6. What characteristic of muscle allows it to return to its normal length after being stretched?
- 11. Considering that thin and thick filaments do not change length, what is a word that starts with O that happens when the muscle shortens?
- 12. Aerobic respiration, the process that produces more ATP, requires what molecule?