The Muscular System

1. The Muscular System By Dom and Celina

2. What are muscles? Muscles are a special type of tissue in the human body that have the ability to move all the different bones, but muscles can only pull. Another thing that makes muscles move are joints. Without joints, movement in our body would be impossible.

3. What is the main function of the muscular system? The muscular system’s main function is movement in body parts, circulation, posture and help in digestion.

4. What would happen if our muscular system didn’t do it’s job? If our muscular system didn’t do it’s job, our lungs wouldn’t work (because the lungs are controlled by the diaphragm which is a type of muscle), movement in our body would be impossible and we wouldn’t be able to digest the food we eat (because some parts of the digestive system need muscles to work like the oesophagus).

5. What do humans need to do to keep our muscular system functioning properly? To keep our muscular system functioning properly, we need to exercise and eat healthy foods with nutrients (and NO additives) to keep our muscles growing properly and at the right pace.

6. How does healthy food help keep our muscular system functioning properly? Healthy food (with lots of nutrients) help our muscular system by giving our muscles the energy to grow bigger and bigger as you grow.

7. How does the muscular system help other body systems? Digestive System: The muscular system helps the digestive system by controlling the oesophagus, small intestine, large intestine, rectum and the anus. Respiratory System: The muscular system helps the respiratory system by controlling the diaphragm to make space for the air that gets directed into our lungs.

8. How does the muscular system help other body systems? Skeletal System: The muscular system helps the skeletal system by protecting and moving the bones in our body so we can have movement. Circulatory System: The muscular system helps the circulatory system by letting blood rush through the blood vessels.

9. What websites did we use? We used the following websites: • Dictionary.com • Kids Biology • Healthy Muscles We have gotten lots of the information from these links to put in our presentation for the muscular system!

10. The end We hope you all liked our presentation because we worked REALLY hard on our presentation including the information in our work!

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