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Nervous and Muscular Systems 1
Nervous and Muscular Systems 1
Smooth
Cardiac
Skeletal
Smooth
*pipe = arteries
How it works:
Purpose:
- Brain sends message to
performs
muscles
involuntary
- Muscles expand/contract
actions (ex:
- Action happens (ex: shape of
bladder, uterus,
lens changed to focus eye,
digestive tract,
blood pushed through body)
eye, artery walls)
Cardiac
Purpose: pumps
blood in/out of heart
How it works:
Coordinated
contractions of
pacemaker pumps
blood out of the
atria
Skeletal
Purpose:
moves
limbs/body
voluntarily
How it works:
- Brain sends message to
muscles
- Muscles expand/contract,
pulling on the bones
- Limb moves
*extension cord
How it Works
Messages start in brain as electrical signal
Messages pass through neurons
1. Converted to electrical signal in dendrite
2. leave the neurons axon as a chemical signal
3. repeat
Works Cited
Information:
http://www.medicinenet.com/how_muscles_work_and_re
spond_to_resistance_exercise/views.htm
Pictures:
https://www.brianmac.co.uk/muscle.htm
http://philschatz.com/anatomy-book/contents/m46676.ht
ml
http://learn.visiblebody.com/muscular/muscle-types
http://www.zo.utexas.edu/faculty/sjasper/images/f34.24.jp
g
https://www.nichd.nih.gov/health/topics/neuro/condition
info/Pages/parts.aspx
https://askabiologist.asu.edu/sites/default/files/resources/a
rticles/nervous_journey/nervous_system_anatomy.jpg
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muscular_system
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/376121006350111435/
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.livescience.com/2685
4-muscular-system-facts-functions-diseases.html?client=
safari
http://www.ousd.org/Page/14092
http://classes.midlandstech.edu/carterp/Courses/bio210/ch
ap09/lecture1.html
http://www.livestrong.com/article/359490-how-are-themuscular-nervous-systems-connected/
http://www.livescience.com/22665-nervous-system.html