Your Skeletal and Muscular Systems

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Your Skeletal and Muscular Systems

• Created by
• Mrs. Mastriana

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How do bones and muscles work?

• The muscular and skeletal systems work together
  to support your body and move it.

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Functions of the muscular skeletal systems

• Support Bones are like beams that support the
  building.

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• Protection For example the skull protects your
  brain.

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• Movement muscles and bones move all your body.

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Structure of the Skeletal System

• Adults have 206 bones.
• Bones are hard but spongy inside.
• Joints are the places where bones meet.
• Connecting tissues are connecting bones and
  muscles.

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Types of Connecting tissues -

• Cartilage- it covers ends of bones and supports
  nose and ears.
• Ligament is connecting bone to bone.
• Tendon is connecting the muscle to the bone.

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Structure of the Muscular System
The body has over 600 muscles! There are three
types of muscles

• Skeletal Voluntary muscles because you can
  control them.

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The second type of muscle is

• Cardiac The heart muscle!

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The third type of muscles

• Smooth Involuntary muscles because you cant
  control them.

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Lets review the 3 types of muscles
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Keeping your bones and muscles healthy!

• Eat a healthy diet
• Bones need calcium.
• Muscles need carbohydrates for energy and protein
  for growth.

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Regular Exercise- Bones and muscles need regular
exercise
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Keeping straight posture
It helps joints to stay in place and muscles to
stay in shape.
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Rest between exercise-

• Allow your muscles to recover and get
  re-energized.