Can I Move a Muscle Now?

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Can I Move a Muscle Now? 1. About how many muscles do you have in your body?
A. 10,000
By Jennifer Kenny B. 50
C. 600
Tickle your little brother. Read a book. Skate. Smile. D. 100
Each time you did one of these things, your muscles
were at work. Each time any part of you moves, big or 2. Muscles can be big or small.
small, you use your muscles. A. True
B. False
You have over 600 muscles in your body. Some are
big. Some are small. Some are right under your skin. 3. Which is NOT a kind of muscle in the human body?
Some are deep inside your body.
A. smooth
Make a fist and bring it up to your shoulder. You can B. skeletal
feel the biceps, a muscle in your upper arm change as it C. exoskeletal
bunches up and gets harder. How did that work? Well, D. cardiac
the muscle is attached to a bone. As it draws itself
together, it pulls on your arm. It works with another muscle called the 4. Muscles usually work in ______.
triceps, too. Other muscles in the body are paired the same way. A. pairs
B. sets of 4
One group of muscles is called the skeletal muscles. These muscles C. sets of 5
are attached to the bones of your skeleton. You use them to smile, D. sets of 3
move your neck, and move your back. They are found in your arms
and legs, too. They help you to walk, run, jump, or kick. 5. What best describes your heart?
A. cardiac muscle
Another kind of muscle is called smooth muscles. They are in your B. skeletal muscle
throat, your stomach, and your intestines. They are also in your eye to C. smooth muscle
help the pupil adjust to the light.
6. Your heart never gets tired.
There's another kind of muscle that exists as the only one of its kind
in your body. That's the heart, also called the cardiac muscle. It keeps A. True
your heart pumping all day. It never gets tired. B. False

Your skeletal muscles do get tired, but that doesn't mean you 7. Walking is good for your muscles.
shouldn't use them. Exercise is good for your muscles. You should A. False
pick something you like and do it - walk, run, do somersaults, swim, B. True
or ride your bike. In turn, they will work for you. You can't make a
move without your muscles.
 What do smooth muscles help you to do?
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Pretend you made a fist and brought it up to your shoulder. What

just happened with your muscles?