Facts about muscular system

Answer 1

Muscles can account for about 40% your body weight.

Muscles can only pull, they cannot, as some people assume, push.

The longest muscle has muscle cells that can be over a foot long.

The smallest muscles are in the middle of the ear;examples are the tensor tympani, and stapedius.

The strongest, pound for pound, are the masseters, the chewing muscles.

There are 640 individual names for muscles. Muscles need OXYGEN and FOOD to function properly. The hardest working muscles in the body are the muscles in the eye. It takes 17 muscles in the body to smile. There are muscles in the root of our hair that gives us goose bumps!

Well,it also gives you other things like as movement and structure.
the apendix because its the biggest bone in your body

Answer 2

1.calcium is required for muscle contraction. 2.the heart can beat out of the body without control of the nervous system. 3.skeletal and cardial muscles are striated. 4.the unit contractile mechanism of the muscle is the sacromere,except in smooth musceles.

Answer 3

its major functions are that they move, support and provide protection 4 our bodies

Answer 4

Works with skeletal system to produce voluntary movement;helps to circulate blood and move food through the digestive system

Answer 5

gets u used to something if you havent done it in a long time