Muscular System Review

Muscular System Review

LO: To review the functions of the muscular system

Open Ended

What are the 4 functions of the muscular system?

Identify them. If you can, try to describe them.

Functions of the Muscular System

• Movement: Many muscles are attached to bones, when muscles contract it allows the bones to move

• Stability: Muscles support your body and help you balance

• Protection: Muscles cover your skeleton and organs, protecting them like a layer of padding

• Temperature regulation: Muscles contract to make you shiver, this creates thermal energy to warm you up when you are too cold

Multiple Choice

What is muscle made of?

• 206 bones

• Tissues attached to bones

• Weak tissue that protects bones

• Strong tissue that can contract in an orderly way

Muscles are made of strong tissue that can contract in an orderly way

• Contract is when the muscle is being used, muscles are shorter

• The opposite of contract is relax, muscles are longer

Multiple Choice

When muscles are contracted, are they shorter or longer than when they are relaxed?

• Shorter

• Longer

• They are the same length

Multiple Select

What is the function of muscles that are not attached to bones?

• They help you move

• They cause blood and food to move through your body

• They cause your heart to beat

• They help with exercise

• They cause goosebumps

Muscles that are not attached to bones

• These muscles contract for different purposes:

• for food and blood to move through the body

• for the heart to beat

• for the hair on your arms to stand up when you get goose bumps

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How are tendons different from ligaments? How are they similar?

Tendons connect muscles to bonds

• They are strong but flexible

• They help stabilise joints so they can move

• They help you keep a good posture

Multiple Choice

Which type of muscle attaches to bones?

• skeletal muscle

• cardiac muscle

• smooth muscle

Skeletal Muscles

• The type of muscle that attaches to bones 

• They are voluntary muscles - this means you can control their movement

• They work by pulling on bones, they cannot push

• If you exercise, they will get larger and stronger

• Too much exercise can exhaust or cramp them

Multiple Choice

Skeletal muscle cells have stripes called striations.

• True

• False

Muscles have to be in pairs because they can only pull bones, not push them

• In your arm, the bicep contracts to pull the arm up

• When the bicep is contracted, the tricep is relaxed

• The tricep contracts to pull the arm down

• When the tricep is contracted, the bicep is relaxed

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What are the two types of involuntary muscles?

Cardiac Muscle

• Muscles found only in the heart

• It is involuntary so you cannot consciously control them

• When they contract and relax, it pumps blood throughout your body

• These muscles have branches with disks at the end

Smooth Muscle

• They are involuntary muscles with a smooth appearance

• They are found in blood vessels and many organs

• When they contract, they help move materials through the body

• e.g. food in the stomach or blood through the vessels

Open Ended

What are the 3 types of muscles?

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What things do you think you can do to keep muscles healthy?

Healthy Muscles

• A good diet, with lots of nutrients and proteins, fibre and potassium

• Exercise to keep them strong

• Weak muscles can increase the risk of heart disease and bone injuries

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How do you think muscles could help with homeostasis?

The Muscular System and Homeostasis

• Homeostasis = maintaining a stable internal environment (keeping things inside the body, as they should be)

• 1) Temperature: when you are cold, muscles contract to make you shiver which converts chemical energy to thermal energy to warm you up

• 2) Cardiac muscles contract faster to pump more blood, and so oxygen, around the body when you are exercising