Muscular System

• Muscles

  Responsible for body movement
• Muscles

  • Responsible for body movement
  • Allow you to stand
  • Allow you to walk
  • Allow you to run
  • Allow you to dance
• The muscles give the body shape and mass
• Voluntary muscles


  Move when they are consciously controlled
• Skeletal muscles


  • Connected to the bones and responsible for movement
  • Voluntary muscles move when they are consciously controlled
  • Give shape to the body
• There are about 640 muscles in the body which are responsible for different types of movement
• Muscles


  Allow movement of the eyes, make different facial expressions and other facial activities
• Kinds of muscles

  • Skeletal
  • Smooth
  • Cardiac
• The movement of skeletal muscles is voluntary
• Smooth muscles


  You cannot consciously control the action of smooth muscles
• Smooth muscles are involuntary muscles
• Smooth muscles


  Not attached to the bones. They are involuntary muscles because they work automatically