Muscular System

Muscular System

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What do you know about the muscular system?

Muscular System

A group of structures that gives your body the power to move.

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Why do you need the muscular system?

Multiple Choice

How many types of muscles are their?

• 600

• 3

• 5

• 206

Skeletal Muscle

• Responsible for moving bones

• Voluntary

• Tendons connect muscle to bone

• Contract (shorten) quickly and get tired easily.

• Look striped or striated

• Example: Bicep, Quardricep, Pectoral

Smooth Muscle

• Regulates blood pressure, digestion, and other internal functions.

• Involuntary

• Examples are muscles in the stomach, bladder and blood vessels.

Cardiac Muscle

• Found only in the heart

• Involuntary

• Striated (Or Striped)

Multiple Choice

If you have the power to control the muscle it is called.

• Involuntary

• Voluntary

Voluntary vs. Involuntary

• Voluntary: you have the power to control.

• Involuntary: Work continuously even when you are sleeping.

Multiple Choice

An example of an involuntary muscle is?

• Leg

• Heart

• Arm

• Fingers

You move because pairs of muscles work together.

• One end of the muscle attaches at the end of a bone by a tendon.

• The opposite end of the muscle attaches to another bone.

• Muscles always pull against the opposite bone.

Multiple Choice

When you bend your arm which muscle is contracting, or shortening?

• Bicep

• Tricep

Contracting Vs Relaxing

• Your bicep is contracting

• Your tricep is relaxing

Review

Answer Review Questions

Multiple Choice

These muscles are found in internal organs.

• Skeletal

• Muscular

• Smooth

• Cardiac

Multiple Choice

These muscles are connected to the bone.

• Smooth

• Skeletal

• Cardiac

Multiple Choice

Cardiac muscles are?

• Voluntary

• Involuntary