Science Notebook - Student Edition

330 Integumentar y, Skeletal, and Muscular Systems

Skeletal Muscle

Contraction

I found this information

on page.

Skeletal Muscle

Strength

I found this information

on page.

Analyze muscle tissue by completing the graphic organizer.

Skeletal

muscle

is

arranged

in

made

up of

arranged in

sections called

containing

protein

filaments

Summarize the sliding filament theor y.

Contrast the abilities of slow-twitch and fast-twitch muscles.

Slow-twitch Fast-twitch

Section 32.3 The Muscular System (continued)

Main Idea Details

Copyright © Glencoe/McGraw-Hill, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

Contract your biceps muscle. Describe what you did to contract

the muscle and which muscle is relaxed. Try the opposite and contract the muscle that

was relaxed and describe what happens.

(^) CONNECT