Types of Muscles:
- Smooth Muscles-The brain tells these muscles what to do without us thinking about it. They tighten up and relax food in your stomach and digestive system to allow the food to make its way through the body. If your sick your smooth muscles push food back out of the stomach to the esophagus (food pipe) and out of the mouth. This is called barf, vomit, puke, and/or throw up. Smooth muscles allow us to hold urine(pee) until you get to the bathroom. They also push the urine out. Smooth muscles can be found in a woman's uterus, also called a womb, is where the baby forms. Smooth muscles help push the baby out. Smooth muscles help our eyes say focused.
- Cardiac Muscles-The Cardiac muscle is also called the myocardium. The thick muscles of the heart allowing it to pump blood out and then relax to let blood back in again. Cardiac muscles work with no help from us.
- Skeletal Muscles-Skeletal Muscles are the type of muscles we would think about.They are the ones that show how strong we are.We can control our skeletal muscles.An example is if you don't want to kick a soccer ball, you don't have to kick it.These muscles are apart of the muscular skeletal system.The system is a combination of bones and skeletal muscles. Skeletal muscles are mostly attached to one end of a bone. Tendons hold bones and muscles together.
Fun Facts:
- Human bodies have over 600 muscles.
- Muscles are made of elastic tissue
- Each muscle is made of thousand to ten thousand fibers
Source:https://kidshealth.org/en/kids/muscles.html
