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The Muscular System Aisha Suleiman & Zein Saket
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Main Functions of the Muscular System Generating Warmth Maintaining Posture Causing Movement
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The 3 types of Muscles and their locations The Smooth Muscle is in the gut and other organs The Cardiac...is obviously the heart muscles Skeletal Muscle is attached to the skeleton, or bone
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Skeletal muscle Function The Skeletal Muscle performs vital functions, it offers support, posture and movement.
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Smooth muscle function The Smooth Muscle helps with pushing out a baby, urine, and moves food through digestive tract.
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Cardiac muscle function Your heart is made of cardiac muscle. This type of muscle only exists in your heart. Unlike other types of muscle, cardiac muscle never gets tired. It works automatically and constantly without ever pausing to rest. Cardiac muscle contracts to squeeze blood out of your heart, and relaxes to fill your heart with blood.
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Where?
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Interesting facts! 1. It takes 17 muscles to smile and 42 to frown 2. The hardest working muscle is the eye 3. There there are muscles in the root of your hair that give you goosebumps 4. To take one step, you use 200 muscles 5. The smallest muscles are in the middle of your ear
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Sources http://www.mananatomy.com/body-systems/muscular-system https://www.innerbody.com/image/skelfov.html http://www.botany.uwc.ac.za/sci_ed/grade10/mammal/muscle.htm https://www.innerbody.com/image_musc01/musc71.html http://www2.asd.wednet.edu/pioneer/barnard/zpastprojects/00_01/bs/team05/m uscular/sld007.http://www2.asd.wednet.edu/pioneer/barnard/zpastprojects/00_01/bs/team05/m uscular/sld007.tm http://examples.yourdictionary.com/smooth-muscle-examples.html http://blog.degreed.com/top-10-facts-about-the-muscular-system/
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