Muscle Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 2. skeletal muscles make up about _____ percent of your body weight
  2. 4. make up the walls of the heart and the brain itself
  3. 5. place of connection between muscles and moving bones by tendons
  4. 6. skeletal muscles protect ________
  5. 7. place of connection between muscles and stationary bones by tendons
  6. 8. type of muscle that attaches to the bones
  7. 12. weakest of the 3 muscle types
  8. 14. visceral muscles and cardiac muscles are in the _________ muscle
Down
  1. 1. digestive and ________ system work together to absorb nutrients
  2. 3. protects enclosed organs
  3. 4. what the muscular system does
  4. 9. bands of dense connective tissue, connects using collagen fibers, strong, high stress due to pull of muscles
  5. 10. type of muscle that is only involved with the heart
  6. 11. there are ____ total muscles in your body
  7. 13. skeletal muscles are in the ________ muscle