unit 4. locomotor system
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Teacher: Merche
We use our locomotor system to moves our body, eat and speak.
LOCOMOTOR SYSTEM
• Our locomotor system is made up of bones, joints, muscles and tendons.
LOCOMOTOR SYSTEM
Funtions:•We can move some of them (example, arms and legs)•Other muscles move automatically (example, the heart)
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Muscles are elastic and flexible
Funtions:•Bones make up the skeleton.•They support the body.•They protect the organs: heart, lungs and brain.
LOCOMOTOR SYSTEM
Bones are hard and rigid.
The hip and the knee are joints
LOCOMOTOR SYSTEM
Joints: two o more bones meet.
When a muscle contracts it pull on the bone
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Tendons attach muscles to the bones.
How can we look after our locomotor system?
• We can warm up before doing sport
• Stretch after doing exercise.
• We can sleep 10 hours every day.
We should doWe should do
• Eat food with calcium
How can we look after our locomotor system?
• Sit with bad posture
• Carry heavy things.
We shouldn´t doWe shouldn´t do