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    • Name 5 functions of the skeletal system
      support, movement, shape, protection of vital organs, mineral storage, blood cell production.
    • Name 5 types of bones
      Long, Flat, Short, irregular, sesamoid
    • Name 3 types of Muscle
      smooth, cardiac, skeletal
    • What does the antagonist muscle do
      Muscle relaxes to allow movement to take place
    • What does the agonist muscle do
      Muscle contracts to produce the movement
    • What are the 4 muscle contractions
      Isotonic, concentric, eccentric, isometric.
    • Isotonic contraction
      Muscle changes length. can be shown with concentric and eccentric.
    • Concentric contraction
      Muscle gets shorter
    • Eccentric contraction
      Muscle gets longer
    • isometric contraction
      Stays the same length
    • What are the functions of slow twitch fibres
      Red in colour due to oxygen
      slow contraction speed
      produce low force
      fatigue slowly
      use oxygen to produce lots of energy (aerobic)
    • What are the functions of type 2 fast twitch fibres
      white in colour due to no oxygen Fast contraction speed Strong force Fatigue very quickly Contract without oxygen
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