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**The locomotor system**

The **skeleton** is made up of all our **bones**. It supports the body, protects our internal organs and helps us to move. Bones, joints and muscles make up the locomotor system.

Bones are all hard, but they have different shapes:

- flat bones: head, shoulders

- small bones: bones of the backbone (vertebras)

- long bones: femur, tibia, fibula / humerus, ulna, radius

**Joints** are where two or more bones join. Joints allow the skeleton to bend.

Every part of our body has **muscles**. They are flexible and elastic.

Bones and muscles are attached at joints. Tendons attach muscles to bones. Ligaments attach bones to bones.

Our bones are hard and our muscles are elastic, but if we don’t look after them we can damage them.

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MUSCLES AND JOINTS

MOVING AND GROWING