Your skeletal and muscular systems interact with each other to create movement. The skeletal system is covered with muscles that enable us to move. Your muscles are attached to bone by tendons, and the contraction and relaxing of these muscles causes the bone to move resulting in body movement. Bones come together at joints which allow for movement of limbs and movement of the entire body. Muscles pass over joints to create this movement. Your bones and muscles work together by a series of impulses and signals transferred between the brain and skeletal muscles. What happens when you want to pick up a cup? Your brain will tell muscles to move your bones. Once your brain has decided to pick up the cup, a chemical message will be sent through
