The Amazing Muscular System! · 2020-04-19 · Facts about the muscles!!! Your heart is a muscle....
Transcript of The Amazing Muscular System! · 2020-04-19 · Facts about the muscles!!! Your heart is a muscle....
The Amazing Muscular System!
Your muscular system does lots of important jobs. It helps you:•move•pumps your blood •helps you digest food•helps you breathe.
Introduction
Inside a Muscle
How it Works
When you want to move your arm one muscle contracts and the other one relaxes. So that makes your muscle pick up your arm. That is how you pick up weights.
What the Muscle Is Made Of?
• Your muscles are made of small muscle fibers.
•Tendons are stretchable material that connects the muscles to your bones.
How do our muscles work?
Our muscles work by contracting and relaxing
How to Make Healthy
Muscles!!!
Run
Lift weights
Play sports
Drink milk
Eat healthy food
Facts about the muscles!!!
Your heart is a muscle.
Your tongue is a muscle.
There are about 350 muscles in the human body.
Muscles are made of fibers.
The muscular system is the largest system in your body.
More Amazing Facts About
Muscles!!!
Muscles weigh half the amount of
your body.
The tendon is what holds the
muscle in place.
The fiber bundle is what holds the
fibers together just like connective
tissue.
Bibliography!!!
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McGann, Andrew. “The Skeletal System.” A Look Inside the Human Body. On-line.
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Scholastic. The Magic School Bus Explores the Human Body CD-ROM. Microsoft
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