BTEC Sport LEVEL 3 Exam 77 Questions with Answers
What are the 3 muscle types? - CORRECT ANSWER skeletal, smooth, cardiac
Characteristics of
... [Show More] skeletal muscle - CORRECT ANSWER voluntary, striated, can fatigue
Characteristics of smooth muscle - CORRECT ANSWER Involuntary, controlled by nervous system, no stripes
Characteristics of cardiac muscle - CORRECT ANSWER found only in the heart, striated, involuntary, own blood supple
Example of where you can find skeletal muscle - CORRECT ANSWER Deltoid
Example of where you can find smooth muscle - CORRECT ANSWER Stomach (digestive system)
What is the origin? - CORRECT ANSWER End of muscle attached to immovable bone
What is insertion? - CORRECT ANSWER End of muscle attached to movable bone
What is action? - CORRECT ANSWER Movement that is made when muscle contracts
What is the location of the triceps? - CORRECT ANSWER Outside upper arm
What is the location of the Deltoids? - CORRECT ANSWER Shoulder
What is the location of the pectorals? - CORRECT ANSWER Chest
What is the location of the biceps? - CORRECT ANSWER Top upper arm
What is the location of the wrist flexors? - CORRECT ANSWER Inside wrist
What is the location of the wrist extensors? - CORRECT ANSWER Outside wrist
What is the location of the supinators? - CORRECT ANSWER Inner elbow
What is the location of the pronators? - CORRECT ANSWER Inner elbow
What is the location of the abdominals? - CORRECT ANSWER Stomach
What is the location of the hip flexors? - CORRECT ANSWER Lumbar region of thigh
What is the location of the quadriceps? - CORRECT ANSWER Front thigh
What is the location of the hamstrings? - CORRECT ANSWER Back thigh
What is the location of the gastrocnemius? - CORRECT ANSWER Calf
What is the location of the soleus? - CORRECT ANSWER Back of calf
What is the location of the tibialis anterior? - CORRECT ANSWER Outside shin
What is the location of the erector spinae? - CORRECT ANSWER Centre of back
What is the location of the teres major? - CORRECT ANSWER Between scapula and humerus
What is the location of the latissimus dorsi? - CORRECT ANSWER Centre at side back
What is the location of the obliques? - CORRECT ANSWER Side of torso
What is the location of the gluteals? - CORRECT ANSWER Bum
What is the function of the triceps? - CORRECT ANSWER Extension of forearm at elbow joint
What is the function of the deltoids? - CORRECT ANSWER Stability of shoulder joint and upper arm
What is the function of the pectorals? - CORRECT ANSWER flexion, adduction, and internal rotation of the humerus
What is the function of the biceps? - CORRECT ANSWER Flexion of elbow and supination of forearm
What is the function of the wrist flexors? - CORRECT ANSWER Flexion and abduction of wrist
What is the function of the wrist extensors? - CORRECT ANSWER Extends hand at wrist
What is the function of the supinators? - CORRECT ANSWER Rotates radius laterally at proximal radioulna joint
What is the function of the pronators? - CORRECT ANSWER Exclusive upper limb movement
What is the function of the abdominals? - CORRECT ANSWER Allow movement and hold organs in place
What is the function of the hip flexors? - CORRECT ANSWER Allow you to move lower body
What is the function of the quadriceps? - CORRECT ANSWER Extend leg at knee joint and flex thigh at hip joint
What is the function of the hamstrings? - CORRECT ANSWER Allows thigh to extend, tibia to rotate and hip to flex
What is the function of the gastrocnemius? - CORRECT ANSWER Plantar flexor of foot and flexes leg at knee
What is the function of the soleus? - CORRECT ANSWER Plantar flexion of upper ankle joint enabling lifting of heel
What is the function of the erector spinae? - CORRECT ANSWER Move the vertebral column
What is the function of the teres major? - CORRECT ANSWER Produce movements of humerus at the glenohumeral joint
What is the function of the trapezius? - CORRECT ANSWER Stabilise and move scapula
What is the function of the latissimus dorsi? - CORRECT ANSWER Pull inferior angle of scapula in various directions
What is the function of the obliques? - CORRECT ANSWER Pull chest downwards and compress abdominal cavity
What is the function of the gluteals? - CORRECT ANSWER Extension and external rotation of thigh at hip joint
Where do muscles cross and why? - CORRECT ANSWER Cross the joints to allow them to move
What do bones act as? - CORRECT ANSWER levers
What do joints act as? - CORRECT ANSWER fulcrums
What does the strength of muscle contraction depend on? - CORRECT ANSWER Number of muscle fibres needed to be used
What do muscles need to contract? - CORRECT ANSWER Oxygen and fuel source (fat or glucose)
What do muscles convert chemical energy into? - CORRECT ANSWER Mechanical energy
What is the agonist muscle? - CORRECT ANSWER also called prime mover, muscle whose contraction is chiefly responsible for producing a particular movement example: biceps brachii for elbow flexion
What is the antagonist muscle? - CORRECT ANSWER Muscle that relaxes during contractions, opposite of agonist, if it doesn't relax no movement can take place
What is a synergist muscle? - CORRECT ANSWER Work with agonist to control and direct movement by modifying or altering direction of pull on agonist
What is a fixator muscle? - CORRECT ANSWER Stop unwanted movement by fixing or stabilising joints involved in movement
What is the antagonist to the bicep? - CORRECT ANSWER Tricep
What is the antagonist to the deltoid? - CORRECT ANSWER latissimus dorsi
What is the antagonist to the pectoralis major? - CORRECT ANSWER Trapezius
What is the antagonist to the rectus abdominus? - CORRECT ANSWER Erector spinae
What is the antagonist to the iliopsoas? - CORRECT ANSWER Gluteus maximus
What is the antagonist to the quadriceps? - CORRECT ANSWER Hamstrings
What is the antagonist to the hip adductor? - CORRECT ANSWER Gluteus medius
What is the antagonist to the tibialis anterior? - CORRECT ANSWER Gastrocnemius
What are the 3 main types of muscle contraction? - CORRECT ANSWER Concentric, eccentric and isometric
What is a concentric contraction? - CORRECT ANSWER muscle shortens, positive phase of muscle contraction
What is eccentric contraction? - CORRECT ANSWER muscle lengthens, negative phase of muscle contraction
What is isometric contraction? - CORRECT ANSWER Length of muscle doesn't change, joint angle doesn't change, quickly leads to fatigue
How to find max heart rate? - CORRECT ANSWER 220-age=
Ways of finding your heart rate? - CORRECT ANSWER Radial (wrist)
Carotid (neck)
How to find your training zone? - CORRECT ANSWER 60-80% of max heart rate
What component of fitness does your training zone mainly improve? - CORRECT ANSWER Cardiovascular endurance
Health components of fitness? - CORRECT ANSWER Cardiovascular Endurance
Muscular Endurance
Strength
Flexibility
Body Composition
Skill components of fitness? - CORRECT ANSWER Agility
Balance
Co-ordination
Power
Reaction time
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