PE quiz

It is the act of decreasing the angle of a joint. Another term for flexion is to bend. If you bend a joint, like your elbow or knee, you are performing flexion.

• FLEXION

• EXTENSION

• CONTRACTION

• RELEASE

A muscle movement opposite to contraction done when it let goes or let looses of being held into a shortening movement.

• FLEXION

• EXTENSION

• CONTRACTION

• RELEASE

This is the opposite of flexion. You are extending if you are increasing the angle of a joint. Stretching is another word for extension.

• FLEXION

• EXTENSION

• CONTRACTION

• RELEASE

A muscle movement done when it shortens, narrows and tightens using sufficient amount of energy in the execution.

• FLEXION

• EXTENSION

• CONTRACTION

• RELEASE

To rotate is to move a body segment allowing it to complete a circle with its motion. It’s not only limited to circumduction which is done in ball and socket joints. Rotation can also be done in wrists, waist, knees and ankles.

• ROTATION

• TWIST

• PIVOT

• TURN

To move a body segment from an axis halfway front or back or quarter to the right or left as in the twisting of the neck allowing the head to face right or left and the like.

• ROTATION

• TWIST

• PIVOT

• TURN

To change the position of the feet or any body part that carries the body’s weight allowing the body to face in a less than 360 degrees turn.

• ROTATION

• TWIST

• PIVOT

• TURN

To move in a turning movement with a base of support, usually a pointed foot, the other raised, while equilibrium is maintained until the completion of the turn.

• ROTATION

• TWIST

• PIVOT

• TURN

The ___________ Festival is a local festival held annually In Angono, Rizal, Philippines, where hundreds of giant papier-mâché puppets are paraded, representing the common people's mockery of the bad hacienda owners of the past during Spanish colonial rule

• ATI-ATIHAN

• MASSKARA

• HIGANTES

• PAHIYAS

The celebration of this festival is held in order to express gratitude to the patron saint of farmers, Saint Isidore the Laborer, for a year of bountiful harvest, which in Filipino is ani.

• ATI-ATIHAN

• MASSKARA

• HIGANTES

• PAHIYAS